<p class="poetry">In all hard work<n id="1" /> there is profit,p> <p class="poetry">but merely talking about it<n id="2" /> only brings<n id="3" /> poverty.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">An evil person seeks only rebellion,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and so<n id="2" /> a cruel messenger<n id="3" /> will be sent against him.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gainp> <p class="poetry">and the one who gives to the rich<n id="1" /> &#8211; both end up only in poverty.p>

<p class="poetry">But you were brought down<n id="1" /> to Sheol,p> <p class="poetry">to the remote slopes of the pit.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Correct us, <sc>Lordsc>, but only in due measure.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He repeatedly<n id="1" /> attacks me,p> <p class="poetry">he turns his hand<n id="2" /> against me all day long.<n id="3" />p>

So his mother told him, &#8220;Any curse against you will fall on me,<n id="1" /> my son! Just obey me!<n id="2" /> Go and get them for me!&#8221;p>

Then Laban said to him, &#8220;You are indeed my own flesh and blood.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So Jacob<n id="2" /> stayed with him for a month.<n id="3" />p>

We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become<n id="1" /> like us by circumcising<n id="2" /> all your males.

If we do so,<n id="1" /> won&#8217;t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let&#8217;s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.&#8221;p>

The first disappeared<n id="1" /> and I said, &#8220;He has surely been torn to pieces.&#8221; I have not seen him since.

However, if the injured servant<n id="1" /> survives one or two days, the owner<n id="2" /> will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.<n id="3" />p>

However, a spring or a cistern which collects water<n id="1" /> will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

They<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Has the <sc>Lordsc> only<n id="2" /> spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?&#8221;<n id="3" /> And the <sc>Lordsc> heard it.<n id="4" />p>

The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

<p class="bodytext">When they arrived, Samuel<n id="1" /> noticed<n id="2" /> Eliab and said to himself,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Surely, here before the <sc>Lordsc> stands his chosen king!&#8221;<n id="4" />

(Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.)<n id="1" />

However, for your father David&#8217;s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son&#8217;s hand instead.

I will humiliate David&#8217;s descendants because of this,<n id="1" /> but not forever.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>