⁷ and she saith, Let me glean, I pray thee -- and I have gathered among the sheaves after the reapers; and she cometh and remaineth since the morning and till now; she sat in the house a little.

²³ `With' supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.

³³ The fear of Jehovah `is' the instruction of wisdom, And before honour `is' humility!

⁴ The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

⁶ be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

²¹ subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

²⁹ Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!

⁹ and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

³ `Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.