and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

And I applied my heart to seek out and examine by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven, for God has given to the sons of men a burdensome task to be afflicted with.

Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

So the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

before I go to where I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can anyone] see the life of mortals.

Revealing deep things out of darkness: and He has brought into light the shadow of death.

Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?

And do the gates of death open to you out of fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?