Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.

Chap. xxx. Verse 8.

ECCLESIASTES.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the

strong.

Chap. IX.

* See also chapter xii. verse 8.

Verse II.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and

thy princes eat in the morning!

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt

and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Chap. XII.

Verse 12.

THE SONG OF SOLOMON.

For love is strong as death: jealousy is cruel as

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking

flax shall he not quench.

Chap. XLII.

Verse 3.

JEREMIAH.

Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician

there?

Chap. VIII.

Verse 22.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard

his spots?

Chap. XIII.

Verse 23.

EZEKIEL.

And their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel,

Chap. 1. Verse 16.*

DANIEL.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found

wanting.

Chap. v.

Verse 27.

The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap

the whirlwind.

Chap. VIII.

Verse 7.

AMOS.

I have made the stink of your camps to come up

unto your nostrils.

Chap. IV.

* See also Ezekiel x. 10.

Verse 10.

And ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the
Verse II.

burning.*

Chap. Iv.

MICAH.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any Verse 3.

more.

Chap iv.

But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.

Chap. IV. Verse 4.

HABAKKUK.

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,

that he may run that readeth it.

Chap. I.

Verse 2.

MALACHI.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

* Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

Zechariah, chap. III. verse 2.