Thematic Bible: Wages of


Thematic Bible



For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God’s sight. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,


“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.

“This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty.


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