A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.

The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

The one who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but whoever esteems instruction will be rewarded.

The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

A generous person will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.

for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.

Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Ammon’s king will be deported; he and his officials will be carried off together.” The Lord has spoken!

They are frightening and terrifying; they decide for themselves what is right.

When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you for food.

and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,

As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.

In the first month (that is, the month of Nisan), in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus’ reign, pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman in order to determine a day and a month. It turned out to be the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar).

The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.