² ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

⁵ and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

²⁴ till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

⁷ `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

⁸ for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

¹ Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';

² your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

³ your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

⁴ lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

⁵ ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

⁹ and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

¹⁰ for every one who is asking doth receive; and he who is seeking doth find; and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

¹¹ `And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

¹² and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion?

¹³ If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'

⁵ And also, because the wine `is' treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

¹² And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.'

⁸ There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

¹⁹ So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.