Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.

who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which you knew not, and your fathers knew not; that He might afflict you, and thoroughly test you, and do you good in your latter days.

The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; it enriches him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof; the patient is better than the high-minded.

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,

Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is compassionate and He is merciful.

And his substance consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the men of the east.

and the Lord has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him sheep, calves, silver, gold, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found barley in that year, and reaped one hundred fold, and the Lord blessed him.

And he had herds of sheep, and herds of oxen, and many tilled lands, and the Philistines envied him.

And He blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, and He diminishes not the number of their cattle.

Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, [but] blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.