Psalm 4:6
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6 There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?
(A)Lift up (B)the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”
Psalm 80:19
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19 (A)Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
Numbers 6:26
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Footnotes
- Numbers 6:26 Or face
Psalm 119:135
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Psalm 80:7
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7 (A)Restore us, O God of hosts;
let your face shine, that we may be saved!
Psalm 89:15
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15 Blessed are the people who know (A)the festal shout,
who walk, O Lord, in (B)the light of your face,
Psalm 67:1
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Make Your Face Shine upon Us
To the choirmaster: with (A)stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
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Psalm 49:16-20
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16 Be not afraid when a man becomes rich,
when the glory of his house increases.
17 (A)For when he dies he will (B)carry nothing away;
his glory will not go down after him.
18 For though, while he lives, he counts himself (C)blessed
—and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—
19 his soul will (D)go to the generation of his fathers,
who will never again (E)see light.
20 (F)Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
James 5:1-5
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Warning to the Rich
5 Come now, (A)you rich, weep and howl for the (B)miseries that are coming upon you. 2 (C)Your riches have rotted and (D)your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (E)You have laid up treasure (F)in the last days. 4 Behold, (G)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (H)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (I)the Lord of hosts. 5 (J)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (K)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (L)a day of slaughter.
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Luke 16:19
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in (A)purple and fine linen and (B)who feasted sumptuously every day.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3-26
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3 I (A)searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on (B)folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. 4 I made great works. I (C)built houses and planted (D)vineyards for myself. 5 I made myself (E)gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves, and had (F)slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of (G)herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8 I also gathered for myself silver and (H)gold and the treasure of (I)kings and (J)provinces. I got (K)singers, both men and women, and many (L)concubines,[a] the delight of the sons of man.
9 So I became great and (M)surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my (N)wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart (O)found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my (P)reward for all my toil. 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was (Q)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing (R)to be gained under the sun.
The Vanity of Living Wisely
12 (S)So I turned to consider (T)wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only (U)what has already been done. 13 Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness. 14 (V)The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the (W)same event happens to all of them. 15 Then I said in my heart, (X)“What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity. 16 For of the wise as of the fool there is (Y)no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. (Z)How the wise dies just like the fool! 17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for (AA)all is vanity and a striving after wind.
The Vanity of Toil
18 I hated (AB)all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must (AC)leave it to the man who will come after me, 19 and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 So I (AD)turned about and gave my heart up to despair (AE)over all the toil of my labors under the sun, 21 because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 What has a man from (AF)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For (AG)all his days are full of sorrow, and his (AH)work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
24 (AI)There is nothing better for a person than that he should (AJ)eat and drink and find enjoyment[b] in his toil. This also, I saw, is (AK)from the hand of God, 25 for apart from him[c] who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26 For to the one who pleases him (AL)God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given (AM)the business of gathering and collecting, (AN)only to give to one who pleases God. (AO)This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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- Ecclesiastes 2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
- Ecclesiastes 2:24 Or and make his soul see good
- Ecclesiastes 2:25 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts apart from me
Psalm 80:1-3
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Restore Us, O God
To the choirmaster: according to (A)Lilies. A Testimony. Of (B)Asaph, a Psalm.
80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead (C)Joseph like (D)a flock.
You who are (E)enthroned upon the cherubim, (F)shine forth.
2 Before (G)Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
(H)stir up your might
and (I)come to save us!
Footnotes
- Psalm 80:3 Or Turn us again; also verses 7, 19
Psalm 44:3
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3 for not (A)by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
and (B)the light of your face,
(C)for you delighted in them.
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely a man (A)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
man (B)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath
Psalm 21:6
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Footnotes
- Psalm 21:6 Or make him a source of blessing forever
James 4:13
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Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, (A)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—
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Luke 12:19
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19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (A)for many years; relax, (B)eat, drink, be merry.”’
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Isaiah 55:2
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2 (A)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Psalm 42:5
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5 (A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you (B)in turmoil within me?
(C)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation[a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5
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