It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
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Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
Genesis
Law / MosesBlessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
Acts
History / LukeAnd moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
Genesis
LawPharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Genesis
LawThis is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job
WisdomAlso I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
Exodus
LawAnd I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Genesis
LawAnd Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
Acts
History / LukeThen they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
2 Kings
HistorySon of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.