For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Joshua
History / JoshuaI will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWith twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
Exodus
LawWherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJoash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Job
WisdomBut pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Matthew
GospelsRemember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhich is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesThou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIf thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIt is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel
HistoryYea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulKeep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.