The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 42: 16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Job 42: 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Proverbs 1: 1 THE PROVERBS of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Proverbs 1: 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understanding;
Proverbs 1: 3 To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity;
Proverbs 1: 4 To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion;
Proverbs 1: 5 That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;
Proverbs 1: 6 To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs 1: 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1: 8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Proverbs 1: 9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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