Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.

If you appreciate wisdom, your parents will be proud of you. It is a foolish waste to spend money on prostitutes.

People with no regard for others can throw whole cities into turmoil. Those who are wise keep things calm.

After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.

So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out to his farm to take care of the pigs.

Any of your descendants who survive will have to go to that priest and ask him for money and food, and beg to be allowed to help the priests, in order to have something to eat."

she called to her house servants and said, "Look at this! This Hebrew that my husband brought to the house is insulting us. He came into my room and tried to rape me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

So the Sovereign LORD says to them, "Your words are false, and your visions are lies. I am against you.