TSK · Ecclesiastes 7:12

For this is no idle word for you– it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. In the shadow of your wings I take shelter until trouble passes.

Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the LORD.

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

The name of the LORD is like a strong tower; the righteous person runs to it and is set safely on high.

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,