Proverbs

⁹Honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency [from righteous labors] and with the firstfruits of all your income; [Deut. 26:2; Mal. 3:10; Luke 14:13, 14.] ¹⁰So shall your storage places be filled with plenty, and your vats shall be overflowing with new wine. [Deut. 28:8.] ¹¹My son, do not despise or shrink from the chastening of the Lord [His correction by punishment or by subjection to suffering or trial]; neither be weary of or impatient about or loathe or abhor His reproof, [Ps. 94:12; Heb. 12:5, 6; Rev. 3:19.] ¹²For whom the Lord loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights. ¹³Happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) is the man who finds skillful and godly Wisdom, and the man who gets understanding [drawing it forth from God's Word and life's experiences], ¹⁴For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, and the profit of it better than fine gold. ¹⁵Skillful and godly Wisdom is more precious than rubies; and nothing you can wish for is to be compared to her. [Job 28:12-18.]