Thematic Bible: Requires


Thematic Bible




[There is] much food [in] the field of the poor, but {it is swept away} by {injustice}.

He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty [of] poverty.

For ground that drinks the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth vegetation usable to those [people] {for whose sake} [it is] also cultivated, shares a blessing from God.


Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.

You will surely know the {condition} of your flock; your heart attends to the herds. For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation. When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered. read more.
Lambs [will be] your clothing, and goats the price of the field. And [there will be] enough goats' milk for your food, for [the] food of your household and [the] {nourishment} of your maidservants.




And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him.







To a city of warriors, the wise ascends, and he will bring down the stronghold--its object of trust.

[There was] a small city with few people in it. A great king came and besieged it, building great siege works against it. Now, a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. So I concluded that wisdom [is] better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard. read more.
The words of the wise are heard in peace [more] than the shouting of a ruler [is heard] among the fools. Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand. But if not, [while] [the other] is still far away, he sends an ambassador [and] asks {for terms of} peace.