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When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou thalt not destory the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. - Deuteronomy (ch. XX, v. 19-20) [Arbor Day] The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. - Deuteronomy (ch. XXIX, v. 29) [Secrecy] Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. - Deuteronomy (ch. XXVIII, v. 5) [Blessings] He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. - Deuteronomy (ch. XXXII, v. 10) [Eyes] But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. - Deuteronomy (ch. XXXII, v. 15) [Growth] Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. - Deuteronomy (ch. XXXIII, v. 25) [Strength] And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. - Deuteronomy (ch. XXXIV, v. 6) [Graves] And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. - Deuteronomy (ch. XXXIV, v. 7) [Age] Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. - Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 10) [Novelty] I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. - Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 14) [Vanity] For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. - Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 18) [Knowledge : Proverbs : Wisdom] Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. - Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 2) [Vanity] All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled hearing. - Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 8) [Work] The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. - Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 9) [Novelty : Proverbs] The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. - Ecclesiastes (ch. II, v. 14) [Death] To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. - Ecclesiastes (ch. III, v. 1-8) [Proverbs : Time] All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. - Ecclesiastes (ch. III, v. 20) [Man] And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken. - Ecclesiastes (ch. IV, v. 12) [Strength] Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. - Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 10) [Action : Proverbs] I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. - Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 11) [Proverbs : Success] A living dog is better than a dead lion. - Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 4) [Proverbs] For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. - Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 4) [Dogs : Proverbs] The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. - Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 12) [Sleep] Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. - Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 2) [Words] Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. - Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 5) [Vows] Displaying page 2 of 35 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
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