{"id":869,"date":"2009-08-30T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/08\/30\/work-and-wealth-wisdom-from-sirach\/"},"modified":"2009-08-30T20:46:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:46:33","slug":"work-and-wealth-wisdom-from-sirach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/30\/work-and-wealth-wisdom-from-sirach\/","title":{"rendered":"Work and Wealth Wisdom (from Sirach)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told you <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/08\/26\/67-books-in-the-bible\/\">before<\/a> that Sirach is <em>good<\/em> and that you need to read it.&#160; Have you yet?&#160; I continue to recommend it to you with a few verses about success from a wise man who lived in Israel in 200 BC.&#160; Words in italics are mine.<\/p>\n<p>Sirach 9:11 (NRSV) <strong>&#8220;Do not envy the success of sinners, for you do not know what their end will be like.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Well, we do know how much money Michael Jackson took to the grave and the kind of lifestyle Bernie Madoff will have until he dies.&#160; But it wasn&#8217;t long ago that they were the envy of many.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sirach 11:11 (NRSV) <strong>&#8220;There are those who work and struggle and hurry, but are so much the more in want.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The hamster wheel may turn faster, but the destination never gets closer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sirach 11:25 (NRSV) <strong>&#8220;In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten, and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>What day are you in? Remember the other, and act accordingly.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you before that Sirach is good and that you need to read it.&#160; Have you yet?&#160; I continue to recommend it to you with a few verses about success from a wise man who lived in Israel in 200 BC.&#160; Words in italics are mine. Sirach 9:11 (NRSV) &#8220;Do not envy the success\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/30\/work-and-wealth-wisdom-from-sirach\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocrypha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}