O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who haveContinue reading “Psalms 71: 17-24….Forever You are my God!”
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Psalms 71: 9-16….The old are not to forget or be forgotten.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;forsake me not when my strength is spent.For my enemies speak concerning me;those who watch for my life consult togetherand say, “God has forsaken him;pursue and seize him,for there is none to deliver him.”O God, be not far from me;O my God, make haste toContinue reading “Psalms 71: 9-16….The old are not to forget or be forgotten.”
Ecclesiastes 11 :1-5….More thought-provoking proverbs.
1 Cast your bread upon the waters,for you will find it after many days.2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.3 If the clouds are full of rain,they empty themselves on the earth,and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,inContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 11 :1-5….More thought-provoking proverbs.”
Ecclesiastes 10: 8-15….Aids to Living.
8 He who digs a pit will fall into it,and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.9 He who quarries stones is hurt by them,and he who splits logs is endangered by them.10 If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge,he must use more strength,but wisdom helps oneContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 10: 8-15….Aids to Living.”
Ecclesiastes 10: 1-7….Against folly
Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench;so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right,but a fool’s heart to the left.Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense,and he says to everyone that he is a fool.If the anger of the rulerContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 10: 1-7….Against folly”
Ecclesiastes 9: 11-18….Choose wisdom!
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. For man does not know his time. Like fish that areContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 9: 11-18….Choose wisdom!”
1 Corinthians 12: 31b – 13:13….The Way of Love, a more excellent WAY.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as toContinue reading “1 Corinthians 12: 31b – 13:13….The Way of Love, a more excellent WAY.”
Ecclesiastes 9: 7-10….Winding up the book.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you underContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 9: 7-10….Winding up the book.”
Ecclesiastes 9: 1-6….Death Comes to All – a cause to think deeply.
But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and theContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 9: 1-6….Death Comes to All – a cause to think deeply.”
Ecclesiastes 8: 14-17….Do you get the meaning?
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. And I commend joy, for man hasContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 8: 14-17….Do you get the meaning?”
As I read it! 