Fondare 411 Risultati per: Hands
and have taken all the idols of the heathen for gods; these can use neither their eyes for seeing nor their nostrils for breathing the air nor their ears for hearing nor the fingers on their hands for handling nor their feet for walking. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 15)
subject to death, his impious hands can produce only something dead. He himself is worthier than the things he worships; he will at least have lived, but never they. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 17)
Woe to faint hearts and listless hands, and to the sinner who treads two paths. (Ecclesiasticus 2, 12)
Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, not into any human clutches; for as his majesty is, so too is his mercy. (Ecclesiasticus 2, 18)
Do not let your hands be outstretched to receive, yet tight-fisted when the time comes to give back. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 31)
Do not put yourself in a woman's hands or she may come to dominate you completely. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 2)
Work from skilled hands will earn its praise, but a leader of the people must be skilful in words. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 17)
The government of the earth is in the hands of the Lord, he sets the right leader over it at the right time. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 4)
Human success is in the hands of the Lord. He invests the scribe with honour. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 5)
He will wag his head and clap his hands, he will whisper a lot and his expression will change. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 18)
When the rich slips, there are many hands to catch him, if he talks nonsense he is congratulated. The poor slips, and is blamed for it, he may talk good sense, but no room is made for him. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 22)
Low spirits, gloomy face, stricken heart: such is a spiteful wife. Slack hands and sagging knees: such is the wife who does not make her husband happy. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 23)
