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31Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
4Even to your old age, I am the same. And even with your grey hairs, I will carry you. I have made you, and I will sustain you. I will carry you, and I will save you.
32Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.
29The joy of youths is their strength. And the dignity of old men is their grey hairs.
13The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon. 14Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God. 15They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well, 16so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.
16For this reason, we are not insufficient. But it is as though our outer man is corrupted, while our inner man is renewed from day to day.
8But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
1“So then, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all of his commandments, which I instruct to you this day, the Lord your God will cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which exist upon the earth. 2And all these blessings shall come to you and take hold of you, but only if you listen to his precepts. 3Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field. 4Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep. 5Blessed shall be your barns, and blessed your storehouses. 6Blessed shall you be entering and departing.
3when the guardians of the house will tremble, and the strongest men will waver, and those who grind grain will be idle, except for a small number, and those who look through the keyholes will be darkened. 4And they will close the doors to the street, when the voice of he who grinds the grain will be humbled, and they will be disturbed at the sound of a flying thing, and all the daughters of song shall become deaf. 5Likewise, they will fear the things above them, and they will dread the way. The almond tree will flourish; the locust will be fattened; and the caper plant will be scattered, because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall wander around in the street. 6Before the silver cord is broken, and the golden band pulls away, and the pitcher is crushed over the fountain, and the wheel is broken above the cistern, 7and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.
33Whoever has sought to save his life, will lose it; and whoever has lost it, will bring it back to life.
12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
22Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.