Genealogy, Wisdom, and Tested Faith

1. Adam, Seth, Enosh, 2. Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3. Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 6. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. 7. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 8. The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 9. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 10. Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. 11. Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 12. Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim. 13. Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth, 14. the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite, 15. the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, 16. the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. 17. The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. 18. Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber. 19. To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. 20. Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 21. Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 22. Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, 23. Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 24. Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, 25. Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26. Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27. Abram (also called Abraham). 28. The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. 29. These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 30. Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 31. Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. 32. The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. 33. The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. 34. Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. 35. The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 36. The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. 37. The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. 38. The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. 39. The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister. 40. The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. 41. The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. 42. The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 43. Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 44. Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. 45. Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. 46. Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith. 47. Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 48. Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place. 49. Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place. 50. Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. 51. Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth, 52. chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 53. chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 54. chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom. 1. These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 2. Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 3. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him. 4. Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. 5. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 6. The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. 7. The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. 8. The son of Ethan: Azariah. 9. The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. 10. Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; 11. and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz, 12. and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; 13. and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, 14. Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15. Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; 16. and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. 17. Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 18. Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 19. Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. 20. Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. 21. Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. 22. Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 23. Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. 24. After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. 25. The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. 26. Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. 27. The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. 28. The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. 29. The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid. 30. The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children. 31. The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai. 32. The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. 33. The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. 34. Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. 35. Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai. 36. Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, 37. and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed, 38. and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, 39. and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah, 40. and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, 41. and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. 42. The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron. 43. The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. 44. Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. 45. The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. 46. Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez. 47. The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. 48. Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 49. She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. 50. These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim, 51. Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader. 52. Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. 53. The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. 54. The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. 55. The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. 1. Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; 2. the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; 3. the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife: 4. six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem; 5. and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; 6. and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, 7. Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, 8. Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 9. All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. 10. Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, 11. Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, 12. Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, 13. Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, 14. Amon his son, and Josiah his son. 15. The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum. 16. The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son. 17. The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, 18. Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19. The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; 20. and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five. 21. The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. 22. The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. 23. The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. 24. The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

1. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. 2. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 3. knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. 6. But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. 7. For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 8. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 9. But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; 10. and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11. For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits. 12. Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. 13. Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death. 16. Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 18. Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 19. So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 20. for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God. 21. Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22. But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 23. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 24. for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25. But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. 26. If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless. 27. Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. 1. My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. 2. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; 3. and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, “Sit here in a good place”; and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”; 4. haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? 5. Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? 6. But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? 7. Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? 8. However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. 9. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 10. For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 11. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12. So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. 13. For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. 14. What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? 15. And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, 16. and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? 17. Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. 18. Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith. 19. You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. 20. But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? 21. Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22. You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected; 23. and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God. 24. You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25. In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26. For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. 1. Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. 2. For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3. Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. 4. Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. 5. So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 6. And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 7. For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; 8. but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 10. Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11. Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 12. Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. 13. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. 14. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. 15. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 16. For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. 17. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 1. Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2. You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 3. You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4. You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? 6. But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” 7. Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9. Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11. Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12. Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? 13. Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 14. Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 15. For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.” 16. But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. 17. To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin. 1. Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3. Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5. You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6. You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you. 7. Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. 8. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9. Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. 10. Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11. Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. 12. But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy. 13. Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. 14. Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, 15. and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16. Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. 17. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18. He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. 19. Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20. let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

1. Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? 2. On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands. 3. Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud: 4. “To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. 5. You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart. 6. Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things. 7. For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 8. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. 9. They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge. 10. Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold. 11. For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it. 12. “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion. 13. The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth. 14. Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power. 15. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. 16. By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth. 17. I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me. 18. With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity. 19. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver. 20. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice; 21. that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries. 22. “Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old. 23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. 24. When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25. Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born; 26. while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. 27. When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep, 28. when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, 29. when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth; 30. then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, 31. rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men. 32. “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. 33. Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. 34. Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. 35. For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh. 36. But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”