8:21 I called for a fast there by the Ahava Canal, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and seek from him a safe journey 4 for us, our children, and all our property.
8:31 On the twelfth day of the first month we began traveling from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from our enemy and from bandits 5 along the way.
2:8 to guard 6 the paths of the righteous 7
and to protect 8 the way of his pious ones. 9
3:6 Acknowledge 10 him in all your ways, 11
and he will make your paths straight. 12
4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town 13 and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” 4:14 You 14 do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? 15 For you are a puff of smoke 16 that appears for a short time and then vanishes. 4:15 You ought to say instead, 17 “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.” 4:16 But as it is, 18 you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.