Our children win honor, but we never know it, nor are we told when they are disgraced.

Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,

and he might be wise, or he might be foolish---who knows? Yet he will own everything I have worked for, everything my wisdom has earned for me in this world. It is all useless.

The rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father Abraham, send Lazarus to my father's house,

where I have five brothers. Let him go and warn them so that they, at least, will not come to this place of pain.'

The length of our lives is decided beforehand--- the number of months we will live. You have settled it, and it can't be changed.

But you, O God, will bring those murderers and liars to their graves before half their life is over. As for me, I will trust in you.

O God, do not take me away now before I grow old. O LORD, you live forever;