I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSaying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
1 Chronicles
HistoryShall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Amos
Minor ProphetsBut we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielNone of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
Psalms
PoetryIt shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThat be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis
LawThen cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulTrust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIn this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryEsau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAt the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,