Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

49 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. A psalm of the descendants of Korach:

^2 (1) Hear this, all you peoples!
Listen, everyone living on earth,
^3 (2) regardless of whether low or high,
regardless of whether rich or poor!
^4 (3) My mouth is about to speak wisdom;
my heart’s deepest thoughts will give understanding.
^5 (4) I will listen with care to [God’s] parable,
I will set my enigma to the music of the lyre.

^6 (5) Why should I fear when the days bring trouble,
when the evil of my pursuers surrounds me,
^7 (6) the evil of those who rely on their wealth
and boast how rich they are?
^8 (7) No one can ever redeem his brother
or give God a ransom for him ,
^9 (8) because the price for him is too high
(leave the idea completely alone!)
^10 (9) to have him live on eternally
and never see the pit.
^11 (10) For he can see that wise men will die,
likewise the fool and the brute will perish
and leave their wealth to others.
^12 (11) They think their homes will last forever,
their dwellings through all generations;
they give their own names to their estates.

23 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
    think carefully about who is before you.
² If you have a big appetite,
    put a knife to your throat!
³ Don’t be greedy for his delicacies,
    for they are deceptive food.
⁴ Don’t exhaust yourself in pursuit of wealth;
    be smart enough to desist.
⁵ If you make your eyes rush at it,
    it’s no longer there!
For wealth will surely grow wings,
    like an eagle flying off to the sky.

⁶ Don’t eat the food of a stingy man;
    don’t be greedy for his delicacies.
⁷ For he is like someone who keeps accounts —
“Eat! Drink!” he says to you,
    but he doesn’t really mean it.
⁸ The little you eat you will vomit up,
    and your compliments will have been wasted.

⁹ Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
    for he will only despise the common sense in your words.

¹⁰ Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
    or encroach on the land of the fatherless;
¹¹ for their Redeemer is strong;
    he will take up their fight against you.

³³ O the depth of the riches
    and the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How inscrutable are his judgments!
    How unsearchable are his ways!

³⁴ For, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Who has been his counselor?’^[a]
35 Or, ‘Who has given him anything
    and made him pay it back?’^[b]

³⁶ For from him and through him
    and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever!
    Amen.