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so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge.

when He set a limit for the sea so that the waters would not violate His command, when He laid out the foundations of the earth.

For the discerning the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction so that you may be wise later in life.

I have instructed you today—even you— so that your confidence may be in the Lord .

in order to teach you true and reliable words, so that you may give a dependable report to those who sent you?

Be wise, my son, and bring my heart joy, so that I can answer anyone who taunts me.

Let him drink so that he can forget his poverty and remember his trouble no more.

I know that all God does will last forever; there is no adding to it or taking from it. God works so that people will be in awe of Him.

I said to myself, "This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals."

God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor so that he lacks nothing of all he desires for himself, but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a sickening tragedy.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

and many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about His ways so that we may walk in His paths." For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

to those who say: "Let Him hurry up and do His work quickly so that we can see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place so that we can know it!"

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.

You counted the houses of Jerusalem so that you could tear them down to fortify the wall.

I, Yahweh, watch over it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day so that no one disturbs it.

Its collapse will be like the shattering of a potter's jar, crushed to pieces, so that not even a fragment of pottery will be found among its shattered remains— no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth or scoop water from a cistern."

Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord —You alone.