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The way a fire burns depends on its fuel, a quarrel spreads in proportion to its violence; a man's rage depends on his strength, his fury grows fiercer in proportion to his wealth. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 10)
Health and strength are better than any gold, a robust body than untold wealth. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 15)
Drunkenness excites the stupid to a fury to his own harm, it reduces his strength while leading to blows. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 30)
Money and strength make a confident heart; better than either, the fear of the Lord. With fear of the Lord, nothing is lacking: no need to seek for other help. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 26)
O death, your sentence is welcome to one in want, whose strength is failing, to one worn out with age and a thousand worries, resentful and impatient! (Ecclesiasticus 41, 2)
Exalt the Lord in your praises as high as you may -- still he surpasses you. Exert all your strength when you exalt him, do not grow tired -- you will never come to the end. (Ecclesiasticus 43, 30)
Some wielded authority as kings and were renowned for their strength; others were intelligent advisers and uttered prophetic sayings. (Ecclesiasticus 44, 3)
And the Lord conferred strength on Caleb too, which stayed by him into old age, so that he could invest the highlands of the country which his descendants kept as their inheritance, (Ecclesiasticus 46, 9)
For he called on the Lord Most High, who gave strength to his right arm to put a mighty warrior to death and assert the strength of his own people. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 5)
For he destroyed the enemies on every front, he annihilated his foes, the Philistines, and crushed their strength for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 7)
The Lord took away his sins, making his strength ever greater; he gave him a royal covenant, and a glorious throne in Israel. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 11)
For he thinks: 'By the strength of my own arm I have done this and by my own wisdom: how intelligent I have been! I have abolished the frontiers between peoples, I have plundered their treasures, like a hero, I have subjugated their inhabitants. (Isaiah 10, 13)