Found 22 Results for: Skill

• they staggered and reeled like drunkards, and all their skill went under. (Psalms 107, 27)

• Just as it is injurious to drink wine by itself, or again water alone, whereas wine mixed with water is pleasant and produces a delightful sense of well-being, so skill in presenting the incidents is what delights the understanding of those who read the book. And her i close. (2 Maccabees 15, 39)

• 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)

• There is still a good-for-nothing bit left over, a gnarled and knotted billet: he takes it and whittles it with the concentration of his leisure hours, he shapes it with the skill of experience, he gives it a human shape (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 13)

• for profit, an undertaking, and success in pursuing his craft, he asks skill from something whose hands have no skill whatever. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 19)

• for the latter, doubtless wishing to please his ruler, exerted all his skill to surpass the reality, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 19)

• We have not been duped by inventions of misapplied human skill, or by the sterile work of painters, by figures daubed with assorted colours, (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 4)

• Such is your skill in trading, your fortune has continued to increase, and your fortune has made your heart grow prouder. (Ezekiel 28, 5)

• To these four boys God gave knowledge and skill in every aspect of literature and learning; Daniel also had the gift of interpreting every kind of vision and dream. (Daniel 1, 17)

• Never again in you will be heard the song of harpists and minstrels, the music of flute and trumpet; never again will craftsmen of every skill be found in you or the sound of the handmill be heard; (Revelation 18, 22)