⁸ It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

²⁸ For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

⁹ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

³ Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

⁸ But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

²⁰ And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

¹⁹ And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.