“But wisdom – where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?

“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him. (Selah)

The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live.

For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.

The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, “This one was born there.” (Selah)

The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

This is the day the Lord has brought about. We will be happy and rejoice in it.

I said of partying, “It is folly,” and of self-indulgent pleasure, “It accomplishes nothing!”

This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

“Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?

מ (Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!”

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

“This is its meaning,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches represent three days.

Joseph replied, “This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.