Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahStay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDid not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job
WisdomAnd as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis
LawLet no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIn that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
1 Kings
HistoryEven all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;
Numbers
Law / MosesWhat wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSurely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Judges
HistoryBut the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Ezra
HistoryFor for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.