1. EXCEPT THE Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain. [Ps. 121:1, 3, 5.]
2. It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of [anxious] toil–for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep.
3. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. [Deut. 28:4.]
4. As arrows are in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth.