For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobTruly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalms
PoetryThen there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWe would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job
WisdomO Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job
WisdomAnd there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Exodus
Law / MosesElihu spake moreover, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobMy beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThere is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulI have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAre they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.