<p class="poetry">All the streams flow<n id="1" /> into the sea, but the sea is not full,p> <p class="poetry">and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sleep of the laborer is pleasant &#8211; whether he eats little or much &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.p>

<p class="poetry">But it will not go well with the wicked,p> <p class="poetry">nor will they<n id="1" /> prolong their<n id="2" /> days like a shadow,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">because they<n id="4" /> do not stand in fear<n id="5" /> before God.p>

My integrity will testify for me<n id="1" /> later on.<n id="2" /> When you come to verify that I&#8217;ve taken only the wages we agreed on,<n id="3" /> if I have in my possession any goat that is not speckled or spotted or any sheep that is not dark-colored, it will be considered stolen.&#8221;<n id="4" />

There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do<n id="1" /> such a great evil and sin against God?&#8221;

But we replied, &#8216;We cannot go down there.<n id="1" /> If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go,<n id="2" /> for we won&#8217;t be permitted to see the man&#8217;s face if our youngest brother is not with us.&#8217;p>

However, you must not eat these<n id="1" /> from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you<n id="2" /> because it chews the cud<n id="3" /> even though its hoof is not divided.<n id="4" />

The priest must then examine the scall on the seventh day, and if<n id="1" /> the scall has not spread on the skin and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,<n id="2" /> then the priest is to pronounce him clean.<n id="3" /> So he is to wash his clothes and be clean.

He took a pair<n id="1" /> of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, &#8220;Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!&#8221; Then the terror of the <sc>Lordsc> fell on the people, and they went out as one army.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now David&#8217;s soldiers<n id="1" /> and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David<n id="2" /> had sent him away and he had left in peace.

<t /><p class="poetry">When I tried<n id="1" /> to gain<n id="2" /> wisdomp> <p class="poetry">and to observe the activity<n id="3" /> on earth &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night<n id="4" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone shares the same fate<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the righteous and the wicked,p> <p class="poetry">the good and the bad,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the ceremonially clean and unclean,p> <p class="poetry">those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.p> <p class="poetry">What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;A sound is heard in Ramah,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a sound of crying in bitter grief.p> <p class="poetry">It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her childrenp> <p class="poetry">and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, &#8220;There is still one man through whom we can seek the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s will.<n id="1" /> But I despise<n id="2" /> him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always<n id="3" /> disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.<n id="4" /> Jehoshaphat said, &#8220;The king should not say such things!&#8221;

So these officials said to the king, &#8220;This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing<n id="1" /> the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying.<n id="2" /> This<n id="3" /> man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.&#8221;<n id="4" />