I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTherefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
Numbers
Law / MosesWith the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy
LawSon of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsThat the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Acts
History / LukeThe highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Numbers
LawThere hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Revelation
ApocalypticHaving damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFather, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John
GospelsIf I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.