And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Genesis
LawShew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and in the villages thereof,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
Acts
HistoryThou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhy dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Job
Wisdom / JobThere is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Genesis
LawMoreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHave not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThey also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Matthew
GospelsThe idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.