Found 496 Results for: Bitter Water Test

• Wine and women, what a trap for the loyalty of the wise, how hard a test of good sense! (Ecclesiasticus 19, 2)

• Reckless thou wilt find her as thirsty traveller that puts his mouth to the spring and drinks what water he can get; no stake but she will make fast by it, no arrow comes amiss to her archery, till of dalliance she has had enough. (Ecclesiasticus 26, 15)

• there is no healing; the bitter taunt may yet be unsaid, (Ecclesiasticus 27, 23)

• What are man’s first needs? Water, and bread, and clothing, and the privacy of a home. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 28)

• Bitter words for an honest man to hear; shall he owe his bread to one that reviles him as homeless? (Ecclesiasticus 29, 35)

• Smile at his follies now, and the bitter taste of it shall set thy teeth on edge hereafter. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 10)

• If a man fears the Lord, he shall meet with no disaster; God will be watching over him, even when his faith is put to the test, and from such disaster will preserve him. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 1)

• A voice proclaims, Give heed to me, you that are scions of the divine stock; yours to burgeon like a rose-bush that is planted by running water; (Ecclesiasticus 39, 17)

• What are the first needs of man’s life? Water, fire, iron, salt, milk, wheat-meal, honey, the grape-cluster, oil and clothing. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 31)

• Out upon thee, death, how bitter is the thought of thee to a man that lives at ease in his own home, (Ecclesiasticus 41, 1)

• How bitter their complaints against the father who is the author of their ill fame! (Ecclesiasticus 41, 10)

• Cold blows the north wind, and ice forms on the water; no pool but it rests there, arming the water as with a breast-plate; (Ecclesiasticus 43, 22)