In your land no woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will give you long lives.

He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; he will bless your fields, so that you will have grain, wine, and olive oil; and he will bless you by giving you many cattle and sheep. He will give you all these blessings in the land that he promised your ancestors he would give to you.

No people in the world will be as richly blessed as you. None of you nor any of your livestock will be sterile.

The LORD will give you many children, many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you.

May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the sheep in our fields bear young by the tens of thousands.

May our cattle reproduce plentifully without miscarriage or loss. May there be no cries of distress in our streets.

I thought long and hard about all this and saw that God controls the actions of wise and righteous people, even their love and their hate. No one knows anything about what lies ahead.

It makes no difference. The same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the bad, to those who are religious and those who are not, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not.

Then Jesus told them this parable: "There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops.

This is what I will do,' he told himself; 'I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself ? ' "

"There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.