They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

The Lord watches over the innocent day by day and they possess a permanent inheritance.

The one who conducts himself in integrity will live securely, but the one who behaves perversely will be found out.

A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.

A fool’s annoyance is known at once, but the prudent overlooks an insult.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

The truly wise person restrains his words, and the one who stays calm is discerning.

for suddenly their destruction will overtake them, and who knows the ruinous judgment both the Lord and the king can bring?

Now I am sending you Huram Abi, a skilled and capable man,

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!

So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?

Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake – a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the Lord your God!

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

Now, my dear, don’t worry! I intend to do for you everything you propose, for everyone in the village knows that you are a worthy woman.

So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought, “No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”

He replied, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ‘Perhaps the Lord will show pity and the child will live.

Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile!