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«One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor [but] nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.»
«You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash!»
«The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: nostrils, pits
«And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: nobles, pits, the pits
«Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: / Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? / Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? / And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: deserts, drought, heritage, pits, plentiful
«Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fall upon, Into the Fire, pits
«When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.»
«You are in the dark and you fear more. You cannot notice the heaps of earth and the pits on the road. You cannot even know that the road is smooth and fine. There is no fault or partiality in creation; be confirmed in that. Then you will no more waver in your faith.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: partialities, pits
«If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?»
Author: Erma Bombeck | About: Life | Keywords: bowl, bowled, pits, pitted, the pits
«Life is just a bowl of pits.»
Author: Rodney Dangerfield (Comedian) | About: Life | Keywords: bowl, pits