All the wealth you lost will be nothing compared with what God will give you then.

In the desert he gave you manna to eat, food that your ancestors had never eaten. He sent hardships on you to test you, so that in the end he could bless you with good things.

It is the LORD's blessing that makes you wealthy. Hard work can make you no richer.

The end of something is better than its beginning. Patience is better than pride.

Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.

We call them happy because they endured. You have heard of Job's patience, and you know how the Lord provided for him in the end. For the Lord is full of mercy and compassion.

and owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand head of cattle, and five hundred donkeys. He also had a large number of servants and was the richest man in the East.

"The LORD has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.

Isaac sowed crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.

Because he had many herds of sheep and cattle and many servants, the Philistines were jealous of him.

He blessed his people, and they had many children; he kept their herds of cattle from decreasing.

May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the sheep in our fields bear young by the tens of thousands.

Happy is the nation of whom this is true; happy are the people whose God is the LORD!