Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

O Lord my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”

and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

Two people are better than one, because they can reap more benefit from their labor.

Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

Here is another misfortune that I have seen on earth, and it weighs heavily on people:

The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, for the oppression of the king is severe upon his victim.

I have seen another misfortune on the earth: It is an error a ruler makes.

From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s household for Joseph’s sake. The blessing of the Lord was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.

We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”

Here is another enigma that occurs on earth: Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I said, “This also is an enigma.”

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Then he said to them, “If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar

Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need.” When Jacob urged him, he took it.

So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar appointed Joseph overseer of his household and put him in charge of everything he owned.