"The LORD has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.

Isaac sowed crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.

He continued to prosper and became a very rich man.

Remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to become rich. He does this because he is still faithful today to the covenant that he made with your ancestors.

He makes some people poor and others rich; he humbles some and makes others great.

and owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand head of cattle, and five hundred donkeys. He also had a large number of servants and was the richest man in the East.

You have always protected him and his family and everything he owns. You bless everything he does, and you have given him enough cattle to fill the whole country.

Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.

Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.

Let Almighty God be your gold, and let him be silver, piled high for you.

Praise the LORD! Happy is the person who honors the LORD, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

His family will be wealthy and rich, and he will be prosperous forever.

Honor the LORD by making him an offering from the best of all that your land produces.

If you do, your barns will be filled with grain, and you will have too much wine to store it all.

It is the LORD's blessing that makes you wealthy. Hard work can make you no richer.

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.

Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is valuable in every way, because it promises life both for the present and for the future.