"At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead."

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"He kept him as the apple of his eye."

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"Abner . . . smote him under the fifth rib."

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"The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?"

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"Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?"

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"A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps."

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"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."

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"The liberal soul shall be made fat."

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"Blessed is he that considereth the poor."

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"How forcible are right words!"

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"Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season."

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"He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord."

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"Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace."

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"I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy."

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"My tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

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"Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite."

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"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance."

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"But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance."

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"I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."

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"When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me."

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"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."

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"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle."

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"He smelleth the battle afar off."

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"My cup runneth over."

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"He multiplieth words without knowledge."

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"As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth."

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"All that a man hath will he give for his life."

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"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."

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"The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."

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"One that feared God and eschewed evil."

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"If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea."

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"The wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more."

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"He giveth his beloved sleep."

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"My heart is fixed."

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"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright."

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"Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us."

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"The hearing ear and the seeing eye."

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"The land of the living."

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"We took sweet counsel together."

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"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."

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"Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

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"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."

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"While I was musing the fire burned."

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"He knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell."

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"It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth."

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"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble."

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"I may tell all my bones."

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"Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?"

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"Miserable comforters are ye all."

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"Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!"

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