- One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility.
- I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is futility and striving after wind.
- So remove sorrow from your heart and keep pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.
- Wealth obtained from nothing dwindles,
But one who gathers by labor increases it. - Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves.
- Keep deception and lies far from me,
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion. - For the customs of the peoples are futile;
For it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
They decorate the idol with silver and gold;
They fasten it with nails and hammers
So that it will not totter.
They are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.
And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Your hands I entrust My spirit.” And having said this, He died. Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. A prayer of a righteous person, when it is brought about, can accomplish much.Next verse!With image