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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Scriptural Quotations: Old Testament |
| It is not good that the man should be alone. Genesis ii. 18. | 1 |
| For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Genesis iii. 19. | 2 |
| Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis ix. 6. | 3 |
| Am I my brother’s keeper? Genesis v. 9. | 4 |
| My punishment is greater than I can bear. Genesis iv. 13. | 5 |
| His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. Genesis xvi. 12. | 6 |
| Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Genesis xlii. 38. | 7 |
| Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Genesis xlix. 4. | 8 |
| Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Deuteronomy xix. 21. | 9 |
| He kept him as the apple of his eye. Deuteronomy xxxii. 10. | 10 |
| For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Ruth i. 16. | 11 |
| A man after his own heart. 1 Samuel xiii. 14. | 12 |
| Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon. 2 Samuel i. 20. | 13 |
| Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. 2 Samuel i. 23. | 14 |
| How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! 2 Samuel i. 25. | 15 |
| Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. 2 Samuel i. 26. | 16 |
| A proverb and a byword among all people. 1 Kings ix. 7. | 17 |
| How long halt ye between two opinions? 1 Kings xviii. 21. | 18 |
| A still, small voice. 1 Kings xix. 12. | 19 |
| Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. 1 Kings xx. 11. | 20 |
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| Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. 1 Kings xviii. 44. | 21 |
| The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. Job i. 21. | 22 |
| There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. Job iii. 17. | 23 |
| Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. | 24 |
| Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2. | 25 |
| I know that my Redeemer liveth. Job xix. 25. | 26 |
| The price of wisdom is above rubies. Job xxviii. 18. | 27 |
| I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. Job xxix. 15. | 28 |
| That mine adversary had written a book. Job xxxi. 35. | 29 |
| Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job xxxviii. 11. | 30 |
| The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. Psalm xvi. 6. | 31 |
| Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. Psalm xviii. 30. | 32 |
| He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. Psalm xxiii. 2. | 33 |
| Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. Psalm xxiii. 4. | 34 |
| I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Psalm xxxvii. 25. | 35 |
| Spreading Himself like a green bay tree. Psalm xxxvii. 35. | 36 |
| Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. Psalm xxxvii. 37. | 37 |
| My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Psalm xlv. 1. | 38 |
| While I was musing the fire burned. Psalm xxxix. 3. | 39 |
| Oh, that I had wings like a dove! Psalm lv. 6. | 40 |
| His enemies shall lick the dust. Psalm lxxii. 9. | 41 |
| Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Psalm lxxxv. 10. | 42 |
| We spend our years as a tale that is told. Psalm xc. 9. | 43 |
| The iron entered into his soul. Psalm cv. 18. | 44 |
| They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. Psalm cvii. 27. | 45 |
| He giveth his beloved sleep. Psalm cxxvii. 2. | 46 |
| Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalm cxxxiii. 1. | 47 |
| If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm cxxxvii. 5. | 48 |
| We hanged our harps on the willows. Psalm cxxxvii. 2. | 49 |
| For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm cxxxix. 14. | 50 |
| Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs iii. 17. | 51 |
| In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs xi. 14. | 52 |
| Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs xiii. 12. | 53 |
| Fools make a mock at sin. Proverbs xiv. 9. | 54 |
| The heart knoweth his own bitterness. Proverbs xiv. 10. | 55 |
| Righteousness exalteth a nation. Proverbs xiv. 34. | 56 |
| A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs xv. 1. | 57 |
| Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Proverbs xv. 17. | 58 |
| Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs xvi. 18. | 59 |
| The hoary head is a crown of glory. Proverbs xvi. 31. | 60 |
| Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs xxii. 6. | 61 |
| For riches certainly make themselves wings. Proverbs xxiii. 5. | 62 |
| A wounded spirit who can bear? Proverbs xviii. 14. | 63 |
| Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. Proverbs xxiv. 33. | 64 |
| For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. Proverbs xxv. 22. | 65 |
| There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. Proverbs xxvi. 13. | 66 |
| Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Proverbs xxvii. 1. | 67 |
| The wicked flee when no man pursueth. Proverbs xxviii. 1. | 68 |
| There is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes i. 9. | 69 |
| All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes i. 14. | 70 |
| The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. Ecclesiastes v. 12. | 71 |
| It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. Ecclesiastes vii. 2. | 72 |
| For a living dog is better than a dead lion. Ecclesiastes ix. 4. | 73 |
| Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Ecclesiastes ix. 10. | 74 |
| The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Ecclesiastes ix. 11. | 75 |
| Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Ecclesiastes xii. 1. | 76 |
| Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. Ecclesiastes xi. 1. | 77 |
| Be not righteous overmuch. Ecclesiastes vii. 16. | 78 |
| And the grasshopper shall be a burden. Ecclesiastes xii. 5. | 79 |
| Man goeth to his long home. Ecclesiastes xii. 5. | 80 |
| Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Ecclesiastes xii. 6. | 81 |
| Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecclesiastes xii. 7. | 82 |
| Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes xii. 8. | 83 |
| Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes xii. 12. | 84 |
| The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. Isaiah xi. 6. | 85 |
| Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little. Isaiah xxviii. 10. | 86 |
| Set thine house in order. Isaiah xxxviii. 1. | 87 |
| All flesh is grass. Isaiah xl. 6. | 88 |
| Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. Isaiah xl. 15. | 89 |
| A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. Isaiah xlii. 3. | 90 |
| He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. Isaiah liii. 7. | 91 |
| A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. Isaiah lx. 22. | 92 |
| To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Isaiah lxi. 3. | 93 |
| We all do fade as a leaf. Isaiah lxiv. 6. | 94 |
| Amend your ways and your doings. Jeremiah vii. 3. | 95 |
| Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Jeremiah viii. 22. | 96 |
| Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Jeremiah xiii. 23. | 97 |
| The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. Ezekiel xviii. 2. | 98 |
| Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Daniel v. 27. | 99 |
| The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Daniel vi. 12. | 100 |
| For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea viii. 7. | 101 |
| And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Micah iv. 3. | 102 |
| But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree. Micah iv. 4. | 103 |
| Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. Habakkuk ii. 2. | 104 |
| But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. Malachi iv. 2. | 105 |
| He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. Ecclesiasticus xiii. 1. | 106 |
| He will laugh thee to scorn. Ecclesiasticus xiii. 7. | 107 |
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