For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms
PoetryThen shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Luke
Gospels / LukeHowbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Acts
History / LukeNow therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Ezra
HistoryBecause they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
Leviticus
LawAnd he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Matthew
GospelsDeliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahGod is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
Exodus
LawAnd so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
Acts
History / LukeDuke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
Genesis
LawAnd Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
John
GospelsAnd he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus
LawAnd in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.