trusting people
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5Do not be willing to believe a friend. And do not be willing to confide in a commander. From her, who sleeps in your bosom, keep the doors of your mouth closed. 6For the son acts with contempt for the father, and the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.
8It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in man.
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence.
5Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord. 6For he will be like a saltcedar tree in the desert. And he will not perceive it, when what is good has arrived. Instead, he will live in dryness, in a desert, in a land of salt, which is uninhabitable. 7Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, for the Lord will be his confidence. 8And he will be like a tree planted beside waters, which sends out its roots to moist soil. And it will not fear when the heat arrives. And its leaves will be green. And in the time of drought, it will not be anxious, nor will it cease at any time to bear fruit. 9The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it? 10I am the Lord, who examines the heart and tests the temperament, who gives to each one according to his way and according to the fruit of his own decisions.
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. 6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps. 7Do not seem wise to yourself. Fear God, and withdraw from evil. 8Certainly, it shall be health to your navel, and refreshment to your bones. 9Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits, 10and then your storehouses will be filled with abundance, and your presses shall overflow with wine.
19Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord.”
7Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
22Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted.
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.
2Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.
11The heart of her husband confides in her, and he will not be deprived of spoils.
4Seek the Lord, and be confirmed. Seek his face always.
1Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not apparent.
1Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence. 2But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night. 3And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper. 4Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth. 5Therefore, the impious will not prevail again in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the just. 6For the Lord knows the way of the just. And the path of the impious will pass away.