When Avram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Avram, and said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.
Ecclesiastes 6:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For what advantage has the wise man over the fool [being worldly-wise is not the secret to happiness]? What advantage has the poor man who has learned how to walk before the living [publicly, with men's eyes upon him; being poor is not the secret to happiness either]? American Standard Version (1901) For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living? Common English Bible What advantage do the wise have over the foolish? Or what do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before the living? Catholic Public Domain Version What do the wise have which is more than the foolish? And what does the pauper have, except to continue on to that place, where there is life? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life? |
When Avram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Avram, and said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;