Psalms 90:12
So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
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Psalms 90:12
So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
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Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
Genesis 3:18
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 5:5
And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
Job 14:3
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Job 14:4
If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
Job 15:16
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Psalms 31:15
The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.
Psalms 49:14
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Psalms 49:19
He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
Psalms 49:20
Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Psalms 73:18
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
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Genesis 47:8
And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?
Genesis 47:28
And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
2 Samuel 19:34
And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king?
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Numbers 27:7
What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.
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Deuteronomy 8:16
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
Psalms 94:12
Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
Lamentations 3:39
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
Hebrews 12:6
For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.
Hebrews 12:7
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
Hebrews 12:8
But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
Hebrews 12:9
And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
Hebrews 12:10
For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
Hebrews 12:11
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
James 5:10
Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 29:2
And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;
Deuteronomy 29:3
The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:
Deuteronomy 29:4
But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
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Joshua 13:1
Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.
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2 Kings 7:9
Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.
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Job 14:13
If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
Job 14:14
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
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Job 4:20
Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
Job 4:21
If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
Job 14:22
Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.
Job 30:23
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Psalms 73:19
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.
Hebrews 9:27
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
1 Peter 1:24
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
Revelation 2:10
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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Psalms 78:1
Maschil. Of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:20
My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
Proverbs 5:1
My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 6:21
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
Isaiah 55:3
Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.
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Psalms 124:8
Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
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Proverbs 2:2
So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
Proverbs 4:7
The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
2 Timothy 2:7
Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.
James 3:13
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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Proverbs 22:18
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
Proverbs 22:19
So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.
Proverbs 22:20
Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21
To make you see how certain are true words, so that you may give a true answer to those who put questions to you?
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Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
Revelation 15:4
What man is there who will not have fear before you, O Lord, and give glory to your name? because you only are holy; for all the nations will come and give worship before you; for your righteousness has been made clear.
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Genesis 23:2
And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Job 7:6
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Job 7:7
O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
1 Corinthians 7:30
And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;
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Isaiah 22:21
And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.
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Isaiah 65:12
Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
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Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Hebrews 12:12
For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,
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Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.
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Zechariah 3:7
These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.
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Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
Romans 16:19
For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.
1 Corinthians 14:19
But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.
1 Corinthians 14:20
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:22
For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.
1 Corinthians 14:23
If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;
1 Corinthians 14:25
The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.
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Luke 12:35
Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning.
Luke 12:36
And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly.
Luke 12:37
Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.
Luke 12:38
And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants.
Luke 12:39
But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.
Luke 12:40
So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.
John 9:4
While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
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Ephesians 2:8
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
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Numbers 23:10
Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
Psalms 37:37
Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
Proverbs 19:20
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
Luke 16:20
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
Luke 16:21
Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
Luke 16:22
And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
Luke 16:23
And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
James 5:2
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
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Proverbs 27:1
Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
Luke 12:21
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
2 Corinthians 6:2
(For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
James 5:4
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
James 5:5
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
James 5:6
You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
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