Psalms 39:6

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

“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?’

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

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

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.