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Friendless folk may still call upon the Lord and gain his ear, and be rescued from all their afflictions. (Psalms 33, 7)
went off to gain the king’s audience. Wilt thou never bring redress, they asked, and do our brethren right? (1 Maccabees 6, 22)
To gain a brief hour of this perishable life, shall I play a trick on them, shall I disgrace this hoary head of mine and bring down a curse on it? (2 Maccabees 6, 25)
Love me, and thou shalt earn my love; wait early at my doors, and thou shalt gain access to me. (Proverbs 8, 17)
To-day’s gain, tomorrow’s loss; what once we treasured, soon thrown away; (Ecclesiastes 3, 6)
and he, meanwhile, has made the world, in all its seasonable beauty, and given us the contemplation✻ of it, yet of his own dealings with us, first and last, never should man gain comprehension. (Ecclesiastes 3, 11)
Here is one that works alone, partner nor son nor brother to aid him, yet still works on, never content with his bright hoard, never asking, as he toils and stints himself, who shall gain by it. Frustration and lost labour, here too. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)
so light their suffering, so great the gain they win! God, all the while, did but test them, and testing them found them worthy of him. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 5)
All his gain will be doubly thy loss; and so it is that the most High both hates sinners and will bring retribution on their impiety. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 7)
Some, too, for shame, make their friends high-sounding promises, and thereby gain nothing, but lose a friend. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 25)
Toils rich man for gain, till he can rest and enjoy what is his; (Ecclesiasticus 31, 3)
From Egypt’s protection you shall have neither gain nor good; my word has been said about her, There goes Pride, let her alone. (Isaiah 30, 7)
