Fondare 394 Risultati per: Woman
On the fourth day, Holofernes made a banquet for his own attendants, and sent his chamberlain Vagoa with an invitation to her. Prevail if thou canst, said he, on this Hebrew woman to grant me, of her own free will, her favours. (Judith 12, 10)
(Great shame the Assyrians hold it in a man, if any woman fools him, and contrives to escape from his company unmolested.) (Judith 12, 11)
With that, she took Holofernes’ head out of the wallet where it lay hidden. Look upon this head, she cried, and know that the Assyrian army has lost its general. Look upon this, the canopy he lay under, in drunken sleep, when the Lord our God smote him, and by the hand of a woman. (Judith 13, 19)
And Ozias, that was the Israelites’ commander, said to her, Blessing be thine, my daughter, from the Lord God, the most high, such as no other woman on earth can claim! (Judith 13, 23)
Here is great despite done, he cried, to the court of king Nabuchodonosor, and one Jewish woman its author! Holofernes lies there felled to the earth, and no head on his body! (Judith 14, 16)
Great despite the Lord Almighty did him, that he should fall into a woman’s power for his death-blow. (Judith 16, 7)
No subject of the king’s grace, no province in his domains, but knows the inner court of the palace to be sacred. Man or woman entering it unbidden dies there and then; unless indeed the king should grant them life, by holding out his gold sceptre in token of pardon. These thirty days past I have not been summoned to the king’s presence; how can I venture in? (Esther 4, 11)
So frail man’s life, woman-born, so full of trouble, (Job 14, 1)
It is not in man to live a life all blameless; never son of woman yet found acquittal. (Job 15, 14)
The childless woman was his prey;✻ in vain the widow looked to him for mercy; (Job 24, 21)
And shall man, born of woman, win his suit, prove his innocence, when he is matched with God? (Job 25, 4)
Have wiles of woman entangled my heart; did I lie in wait under my neighbour’s window? (Job 31, 9)
