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Advice for Young and Old

Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning.

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Remember Your Creator While Young

Light is sweet,
    and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.(A)

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11 Wisdom is even better when you have money.
    Both are a benefit as you go through life.

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11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing(A)
    and benefits those who see the sun.(B)

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45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.

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45 that you may be children(A) of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.(B)

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30 A cheerful look brings joy to the heart;
    good news makes for good health.

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30 Light in a messenger’s eyes brings joy to the heart,
    and good news gives health to the bones.(A)

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11 For the Lord God is our sun and our shield.
    He gives us grace and glory.
The Lord will withhold no good thing
    from those who do what is right.

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11 For the Lord God is a sun(A) and shield;(B)
    the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold(C)
    from those whose walk is blameless.

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13 The poor and the oppressor have this in common—
    the Lord gives sight to the eyes of both.

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13 The poor and the oppressor have this in common:
    The Lord gives sight to the eyes of both.(A)

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30 He rescues them from the grave
    so they may enjoy the light of life.

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30 to turn them back(A) from the pit,(B)
    that the light of life(C) may shine on them.(D)

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and he would never have seen the sun or known of its existence. Yet he would have had more peace than in growing up to be an unhappy man.

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Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—

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13 For you have rescued me from death;
    you have kept my feet from slipping.
So now I can walk in your presence, O God,
    in your life-giving light.

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13 For you have delivered me from death(A)
    and my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before God
    in the light of life.(B)

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28 God rescued me from the grave,
    and now my life is filled with light.’

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28 God has delivered(A) me from going down to the pit,(B)
    and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’(C)

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