Löydetty 587 Tulokset: Wise Living
David the son of Jesse, of Juda’s tribe, should bequeath to his children a legacy of kingship …… with wise hearts endowing us, to preserve justice among his people, and keep safe the blessings he has given to it; and this pre-eminence over his people he has settled on them in perpetuity.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 45, 31)
There must be an end at last to his life, and to the age he lived in; but first he would make profession, with the Lord and the new-anointed king for his witnesses, bribe he had never taken from any living man, though it were but a gift of shoe-leather; and none might gainsay him.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 46, 22)
To a wise son of his that throne passed; for David’s sake all the threats of the enemy were stilled, (Ecclesiasticus 47, 14)
Seth and Sem are among the heroes of their race, and Adam, too, that when earth began was made Lord of all living creatures. (Ecclesiasticus 49, 19)
Woe upon you, that think yourselves wise, and boast of your own foresight! (Isaiah 5, 21)
Men will bid you consult wizard and diviner, that talk in ghostly voices over their enchantments; Who doubts, they say, God will send his own people answer, an oracle from the dead to the living? (Isaiah 8, 19)
Poor fool, can axe set itself up against woodman, saw defy carpenter? Shall the rod turn on him who wields it, the staff, that is but wood, try conclusions with a living man? (Isaiah 10, 15)
What says our Master, the Lord of hosts? He will send a wasting sickness into that gorged frame; beneath that pride a living firebrand shall burn, burn deep. (Isaiah 10, 16)
One shall be born, on whom the spirit of the Lord will rest; a spirit wise and discerning, a spirit prudent and strong, a spirit of knowledge and of piety,✻ (Isaiah 11, 2)
Nonplussed, all the princes of Tanis; all Pharao’s wise counsellors must needs give him a fool’s answer. Where is that inheritance of learning they boast, come down from ancient kings? (Isaiah 19, 11)
What has become of thy wise men, Pharao? Let them give thee news, let them tell thee what the Lord means to do with Egypt. (Isaiah 19, 12)
So deep a lethargy the Lord instils, blinding the prophets that should be your eyes, muffling with a veil the wise heads that should see visions for you. (Isaiah 29, 10)
