And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
Acts
HistoryAnd Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Luke
GospelsAnd the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
John
GospelsTake thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John
GospelsTherefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMake a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
Psalms
PoetryAnd that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahLet my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
Leviticus
LawAs for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.