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she used to deliver whatever had been ordered from her and then receive payment. Now on the seventh day of the month of Dystros, she finished a piece of work and delivered it to her customers. They paid her all that was due, and into the bargain presented her with a kid for a meal. (Tobit 2, 12)
Then Tobit answered his son Tobias, 'Each of us set his signature to a note which I cut in two, so that each could keep half of it. I took one piece, and put the other with the silver. To think it was twenty years ago I left this silver in his keeping! And now, my child, find a trustworthy travelling companion-- we shall pay him for his time until you arrive back-- and then go and collect the silver from Gabael.' (Tobit 5, 3)
Job took a piece of pot to scrape himself, and went and sat among the ashes. (Job 2, 8)
Eleazar, one of the foremost teachers of the Law, a man already advanced in years and of most noble appearance, had his mouth forced open, to make him eat a piece of pork. (2 Maccabees 6, 18)
Or someone else, taking ship to cross the wild waves, loudly invokes a piece of wood frailer than the vessel that bears him. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 1)
It is not your will that the works of your Wisdom should be sterile, so people entrust their lives to the smallest piece of wood, cross the waves on a raft, yet are kept safe and sound. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
and you devour your own foliage and destroy your own fruit and end by making yourself like a piece of dried-up wood. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 3)
A fool will suffer birthpangs over a piece of news, like a woman labouring with child. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 11)
Like an arrow stuck in the flesh of the thigh, so is a piece of news inside a fool. (Ecclesiasticus 19, 12)
There is the person who finds misfortune a boon, and the piece of luck that turns to loss. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 9)
Did not a piece of wood once sweeten the water, thus giving proof of its power? (Ecclesiasticus 38, 5)
The cold wind blows from the north, and ice forms on the water; it forms on every piece of standing water, covering it like a breastplate. (Ecclesiasticus 43, 20)