If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
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After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
John
Gospels / JohnBecause they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalms
PoetryLo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
Genesis
LawAnd behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel
Minor ProphetsThus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Proverbs
WisdomGive ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy
LawThen laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Acts
History / LukeThe Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
John
Gospels / JohnWhat? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / Paul(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
2 Peter
General EpistlesThere is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOf Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
John
Gospels / JohnThefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mark
GospelsAnd Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticYet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;