THERE were giants in the earth in those days. In a good old age. GENESIS XV. 15. EXODUS ii. 22. I have been a stranger in a strange land. EXODUS iii. 8. Unto a land flowing with milk and honey. DEUTERONOMY viii. 3. Man doth not live by bread only. DEUTERONOMY xiii. 6. The wife of thy bosom. DEUTERONOMY xxix. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. JUDGES V. 7. I arose a mother in Israel. JUDGES V. 25. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. JOSHUA Xxii. 14. I am going the way of all the earth. 2 SAMUEL Xxiv. 14. And are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. 2 KINGS ix. 20. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi: for he driveth furiously. JOB vii. 6. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. JOB yii. 10. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. XX. 9: The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.* JOB vii. 16. I would not live alway. * Usually quoted, "The place that has known him shall know him no more." JOB XXXviii. 7. When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. JOB XXXviii. 31. The sweet influences of Pleiades. PSALM lviii. 4, 5. They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. PROVERBS vi. 6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise. PROVERBS vi. 10. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. PROVERBS ix. 17. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. PROVERBS xii. 10. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. PROVERBS Xviii. 24. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly. PROVERBS xxiii. 7. As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. PROVERBS xxv. 11. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. PROVERBS xxv. 25. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. PROVERBS xxvii. 5. Open rebuke is better than secret love. PROVERBS Xxvii. 15. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. PROVERBS xxx. 8. Give me neither poverty nor riches. PROVERBS Xxx. 15. The horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. ECCLESIASTES i. 8. The eye is not satisfied with seeing. ECCLESIASTES Vii. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment. ECCLESIASTES viii. 15. LUKE Xii. 19. To eat and to drink and to be merry. ECCLESIASTES xi. 3. In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ECCLESIASTES xi. 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eye to behold the sun. THE SONG OF SOLOMON ii. 11, 12. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. THE SONG OF SOLOMON ii. 15. The little foxes, that spoil the vines. ISAIAH iii. 15. Grind the faces of the poor. ISAIAH viii. 20. To the law and to the testimony. ISAIAH xiv. 12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! ISAIAH Xxiii. 8. Whose merchants are princes. |