For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelOf the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Genesis
LawO my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalms
PoetryThy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHe giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Psalms
PoetryYet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Job
WisdomAnd many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
John
Gospels / JohnI would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Psalms
PoetryBut Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts
HistoryAnd the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
Joshua
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Amos
Minor ProphetsHe spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
Joshua
HistoryThe sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhat shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.