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by daring to say to him, 'What does it matter to you, or how does it benefit me, whether I have sinned or not?' (Job 35, 3)
and no one will have the right to exact payment from, or to molest, any of them for any matter whatsoever. (1 Maccabees 10, 35)
The king consented, and wrote Jonathan a rescript covering the whole matter, in these terms: (1 Maccabees 11, 29)
When the matter became known and the king of the Persians heard that, in the place where the exiled priests had hidden the fire, a liquid had appeared, with which Nehemiah and his people had purified the sacrificial offerings, (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
For us who have undertaken the drudgery of this abridgement, it has been no easy task but a matter of sweat and midnight oil, (2 Maccabees 2, 26)
After separate consultation with the elders, he resolved not to wait for the king's army to invade Judaea and take possession of the city, but to march out and settle the whole matter with the Lord's help. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
he went to King Demetrius in about the year one hundred and fifty-one and presented him with a golden crown and a palm, together with the traditional olive branches from the Temple; there, for that day, he let the matter rest. (2 Maccabees 14, 4)
Whoever covers an offence promotes love, whoever again raises the matter divides friends. (Proverbs 17, 9)
To conceal a matter, this is the glory of God, to sift it thoroughly, the glory of kings. (Proverbs 25, 2)
Better the end of a matter than its beginning, better patience than ambition. (Ecclesiastes 7, 8)
To sum up the whole matter: fear God and keep his commandments, for that is the duty of everyone. (Ecclesiastes 12, 13)
And indeed your all-powerful hand which created the world from formless matter, did not lack means to unleash a horde of bears or savage lions on them (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 17)
