The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly. ¹ 

He feeds on ashes; ¹  his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’ ² 

Consider the ravens: ¹  They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds ²  them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

Look at the birds in the sky: ¹  They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds ²  them. Aren’t you more valuable ³  than they are?

Ephraim continually feeds on the wind; he chases the east wind all day; he multiplies lies and violence. They make treaties ¹  with Assyria, and send olive oil as tribute ²  to Egypt.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes ¹  me will live because of me.

For no one has ever hated his own body ¹  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

The wild boars of the forest ruin it; ¹  the insects ²  of the field feed on it.

The Beloved about Her Lover: My lover is mine and I am his; he grazes among the lilies. ¹ 

The Beloved about Her Lover: I am my lover’s ¹  and my lover is mine; ²  he grazes among the lilies.

The one who eats ¹  my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. ² 

The one who eats ¹  my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ² 

He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp. ¹ 

The teaching ¹  of the righteous feeds ²  many, but fools die ³  for lack of wisdom. ⁴ 

This ¹  is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ²  ate, but then later died. ³  The one who eats ⁴  this bread will live forever.”

If I cry ¹  to corruption, ²  ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses ¹  are, there it is.”

“Look now at Behemoth, ²  which I made as ³  I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full. ¹ 

vindicates the oppressed, ¹  and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.