Löydetty 4310 Tulokset: Men
The sport of ill-chance, how little I love the proud emblem of royalty I must wear before the world! Loathsome to me as the rags we women cast aside, how gladly I tear it from my brow, in this cool hour! (Esther 14, 16)
Lord, that hast power over all men, listen to this cry of despair; save us all from the clutches of our enemies, and rid me of these fears that daunt me!✻ (Esther 14, 19)
A madness comes over them, and they assail with false charges the very men who win the praise of all by faithfulness to their duties; (Esther 16, 5)
what easier, than to abuse with calumny the confidence of an unsuspecting ruler, who fancies all men to be as honest as himself? (Esther 16, 6)
That men will so practise on the credulity of princes is evident both from history and from daily experience; (Esther 16, 7)
The orders given yesterday must be reversed to-day; not from any caprice of ours, but because we have to consider the changing needs of the moment, in the best interests of the commonwealth. (Esther 16, 9)
Here is a day marked down for mourning and lament, turned by God Almighty into a day of triumph for them; (Esther 16, 21)
Be there province or city that will not take its part in this observance, let it be laid waste with fire and sword; man nor beast shall tread its ways hereafter; to warn men what doom they suffer, that set edict of ours at defiance. (Esther 16, 24)
And ever when their week of feasting was over, Job would send for them,✻ and have them rid of all defilement; next morning, it was his first care to offer burnt-sacrifice for each of them. Who knows, thought he, but they may have committed some fault, these children of mine? Who knows but they may have slighted God in their secret thoughts? Never would he let the day pass without burnt-sacrifice. (Job 1, 5)
when on a sudden a band of Sabæans swept down on them, and carried all away. As for thy men, the Sabæans put them to the sword, and none lives to tell the tale but I. (Job 1, 15)
And upon the heels of that, in came a third to say that robbers from Chaldæa, in three several bands, had closed in upon the camels and driven them away, killing the men who tended them, so that none was left to tell the tale but he. (Job 1, 17)
Then rose up Job, and rent his garments about him; and he shaved his head bare, and fell down to earth to do reverence. (Job 1, 20)
