^38 (A)give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put ^(B)into your lap. For ^(C)with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

^9 (A)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, ^(B)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house ^(C)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore ^(D)the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹ And ^(E)I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on ^(F)the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and ^(G)on all their labors.”

⁶ In the morning sow your seed, and at evening ^(A)withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

¹⁰ You shall give to him freely, and ^(A)your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because ^(B)for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

^6 (A)You have sown much, and harvested little. ^(B)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who ^(C)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.