You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs him down, but an encouraging word brings him joy.

Gray hair is like a crown of glory; it is attained in the path of righteousness.

A lying witness will perish, but the one who reports accurately speaks forever.

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

“‘If his offering for a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord is from the flock, he must present a flawless male or female.

But if there is a reddish white infection in the back or front bald area, it is a disease breaking out in his back or front bald area.

“‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.

Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.

“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

A psalm. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he performs amazing deeds! His right hand and his mighty arm accomplish deliverance.

Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth. Look, they come quickly and swiftly.

On a bare hill raise a signal flag, shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes!

For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.

As for the rest of the beasts, their ruling authority had already been removed, though they were permitted to go on living for a time and a season.

Jesus also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and it does.

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.