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with the object of attacking the Jewish position and dealing them an unexpected blow; the men from the Citadel were there to guide him. (1 Maccabees 4, 2)
Better the object seen than the sting of desire: for the latter too is futile and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 6, 9)
Take a woodcutter. He fells a suitable tree, neatly strips off the bark all over and then with admirable skill works the wood into an object useful in daily life. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 11)
Take a potter, now, laboriously working the soft earth, shaping each object for us to use. Out of the self-same clay, he models vessels intended for a noble use and those for a contrary purpose, all alike: but which of these two uses each will have is for the potter himself to decide. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
This is the sentence passed on all living creatures by the Lord, so why object to what seems good to the Most High? Whether your life lasts ten or a hundred or a thousand years, its length will not be held against you in Sheol. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 4)
Your daughter is headstrong? Keep a sharp look-out that she does not make you the laughing-stock of your enemies, the talk of the town, the object of common gossip, and put you to public shame. (Ecclesiasticus 42, 11)
Instead of your being forsaken and hated, avoided by everyone, I will make you an object of eternal pride, a source of joy from age to age. (Isaiah 60, 15)
I shall make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem." ' (Jeremiah 15, 4)
to make their country an object of horror, everlastingly derided: every passer-by will be appalled at it and shake his head. (Jeremiah 18, 16)
And I shall make this city an object of horror and derision; every passer-by will be appalled at it and whistle at the sight of all the wounds it has sustained. (Jeremiah 19, 8)
I shall make them an object of horror, a disaster, to all the kingdoms of the earth, a thing of shame, a byword, a laughing-stock, a curse, wherever I shall drive them. (Jeremiah 24, 9)
I shall now send for all the families of the north (Yahweh declares, that is, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant) and bring them down on this country and its inhabitants (and on all these surrounding nations); I shall curse them with utter destruction and make them an object of horror, of scorn, and ruin them for ever. (Jeremiah 25, 9)