⁴ He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

¹⁷ He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

³ "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

¹² For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³ There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.