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Deuteronomy 4 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Proverbs 1 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs 18 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Deuteronomy 4 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Proverbs 26 7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs 18 23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
Isaiah 59 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Ecclesiastes 5 3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Lamentations 4 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Ezekiel 1 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Luke 13 19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Proverbs 18 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 25 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Jeremiah 51 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Leviticus 13 48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
Job 6 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Proverbs 26 23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Jeremiah 4 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Psalms 90 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Job 21 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Galatians 4 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
1 Corinthians 15 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Isaiah 57 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Psalms 32 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
1 Corinthians 14 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
Proverbs 6 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Exodus 21 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Hosea 13 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Daniel 2 32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Matthew 13 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Isaiah 42 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Isaiah 27 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Job 6 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Isaiah 50 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Proverbs 19 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Psalms 102 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Proverbs 11 24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Job 38 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Ecclesiastes 3 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
2 Corinthians 4 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Isaiah 50 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
2 Corinthians 10 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;
Psalms 73 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Ecclesiastes 1 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Jeremiah 10 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Isaiah 65 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Psalms 135 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
Psalms 115 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
Jeremiah 6 24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Isaiah 44 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.