He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set him among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them.

But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,

Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?

Lazarus

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

Was laid

and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;

Full

and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.

And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:

For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?

General references

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.

they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them;