Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHe hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
Deuteronomy
LawBut Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms
PoetrySo the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSo Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
Leviticus
Law / MosesShe hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
1 Chronicles
HistoryA bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraNot for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job
WisdomAnd the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelHe sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOf whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job
Wisdom / JobTo another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIf they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraUnto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs: