He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile.
He seats them with noblemen
and gives them a throne of honor.
For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s;
He has set the world on them.

The brother of humble circumstances should boast in his exaltation,

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

Lazarus

Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Was laid

And a man who was lame from birth was carried there and placed every day at the temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg from those entering the temple complex.

Full

He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.

So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

Many adversities come to the one who is righteous,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.

For I am afflicted all day long
and punished every morning.

From the sole of the foot even to the head,
no spot is uninjured—
wounds, welts, and festering sores
not cleansed, bandaged,
or soothed with oil.

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
So why has the healing of my dear people
not come about?

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General references

Better a poor man who lives with integrity
than a rich man who distorts right and wrong.

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.