When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
Job
WisdomAnd his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsWhen thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Psalms
PoetryWoe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIf the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis
LawJesus went unto the mount of Olives.
John
GospelsAnd he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
Genesis
Law / MosesYea, 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 ProphetsThen shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis
LawYea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
Judges
HistoryThe God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Acts
HistoryYe shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Exodus
LawFor to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Job
WisdomNot that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Matthew
GospelsLook unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
James
General Epistles / JamesAlso her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.