Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Exodus
LawAs it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulO God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Psalms
PoetryI will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Numbers
LawFor, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOr ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesLet their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
John
Gospels / JohnThou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWas not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther
HistoryAnd they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawWhoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Proverbs
WisdomOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Acts
History / LukeThen Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.