If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
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And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
Acts
HistoryDeliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis
LawTherefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
Acts
HistoryAnd they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job
Wisdom / JobGive therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanYe have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
James
General Epistles / JamesBut since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahUpon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
Psalms
PoetryBreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Job
WisdomAnd when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.