Job 27:1
Job continued his discourse and said,
Numbers 23:7
Balaam took up his [first] discourse (oracle) and said:
from the mountains of the east, [saying,]
‘Come, curse [the descendants of] Jacob for me;
And come, [violently] denounce Israel.’
Job 29:1
And Job again took up his discussion and said,
Numbers 24:3
He took up his [third] discourse (oracle) and said:
And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened [at last, to see clearly the purpose and will of God],
Numbers 24:15
He took up his [fourth] discourse (oracle) and said:
The oracle of the man whose eye is opened,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear and consent to a proverb;
On the lyre I will unfold my riddle.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable [to instruct using examples];
I will utter dark and puzzling sayings of old [that contain important truth]—
Proverbs 26:7
Like the legs which are useless to the lame,
So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who cannot learn from its wisdom].
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Job
from the mountains of the east, [saying,]
‘Come, curse [the descendants of] Jacob for me;
And come, [violently] denounce Israel.’
And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened [at last, to see clearly the purpose and will of God],
I will incline my ear and consent to a proverb;
On the lyre I will unfold my riddle.
I will open my mouth in a parable [to instruct using examples];
I will utter dark and puzzling sayings of old [that contain important truth]—
Like the legs which are useless to the lame,
So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who cannot learn from its wisdom].
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The oracle of the man whose eye is opened,