Proverbs 9:13

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.