- Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established. - For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
- For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps. - May he grant you your heart's desire
and fulfill all your plans! - Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed. - Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. - Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul. - For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. - Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist. - So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom. - For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. - This also comes from the Lord of hosts;
he is wonderful in counsel
and excellent in wisdom. - These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- Do not envy a man of violence
and do not choose any of his ways,
for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord,
but the upright are in his confidence. - For the Lord God does nothing
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets.
You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.