A Happy Life
Psalm 4:7
You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.


Now, as they were going along and talking, they espied a boy feeding his father's sheep. The boy was in very mean clothes, but of a very fresh and well-favoured countenance, and as he sat by himself, he sang —

"He that is down needs fear no fall;

He that is low no pride;

He that is humble ever shall

Have God to be his guide.

I am content with what I have,

Little be it or much;

And, Lord, contentment still I crave,

Because Thou savest such.

Fulness to such a burden is,

That go on pilgrimage:

Here little, and hereafter bliss,

Is best from age to age."Then said their guide, "Do you hear him?" "I will dare to say that this boy lives a merrier life, and wears more of that herb called heart's ease in his bosom, than he that is clad in silk and velvet."

( John Bunyan.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

WEB: You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.




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