Psalms 39:4

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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.”

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.

These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.

It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

“This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: