6:9 It is better to be content with 1 what the eyes can see 2
than for one’s heart always to crave more. 3
This continual longing 4 is futile – like 5 chasing the wind.
11:9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young, 6
and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth.
Follow the impulses 7 of your heart and the desires 8 of your eyes,
but know that God will judge your motives and actions. 9
7:22 Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent. The things were hidden right in his tent, with the silver underneath. 12 7:23 They took it all from the middle of the tent, brought it to Joshua and all the Israelites, and placed 13 it before the Lord. 7:24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster. 14 7:25 Joshua said, “Why have you brought disaster 15 on us? The Lord will bring disaster on you today!” All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.) 16
23:5 When you gaze upon riches, 17 they are gone,
for they surely make wings for themselves,
and fly off into the sky like an eagle! 18
17:11 The person who gathers wealth by unjust means
is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. 19
Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. 20
At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.” 21
2:13 Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed:
The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke;
their exhausting work will be for nothing. 22
2:1 I will stand at my watch post;
I will remain stationed on the city wall. 23
I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me
and can know 24 how I should answer
when he counters my argument. 25