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Do not lend to anyone who is stronger than you are -- if you do lend, resign yourself to loss. (Ecclesiasticus 8, 12)
Better the hardworking who has plenty of everything, than the pretentious at a loss for a meal. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 27)
There is the person who finds misfortune a boon, and the piece of luck that turns to loss. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 9)
It is a disgrace to have fathered a badly brought-up son, but the birth of any daughter is a loss; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 3)
Disaster will follow on disaster, rumour on rumour; they will pester the prophet for a vision; the priest will be at a loss over the law and the elders on how to advise. (Ezekiel 7, 26)
Despite the pharaoh's great army and hordes of men, he will not be able to save him by fighting, however many earthworks are raised, however many trenches dug to the loss of many lives. (Ezekiel 17, 17)
' "Belteshazzar, chief of magicians," I said, "I know that the spirit of the holy gods resides in you and that no mystery puts you at a loss. This is the dream I have had; tell me what it means. (Daniel 4, 6)
Peter was still at a loss over the meaning of the vision he had seen, when the men sent by Cornelius arrived. They had asked where Simon's house was and they were now standing at the door, (Acts 10, 17)
Then, when they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among the men. 'Friends,' he said, 'you should have listened to me and not put out from Crete. You would have spared yourselves all this damage and loss. (Acts 27, 21)
But now I ask you not to give way to despair. There will be no loss of life at all, only of the ship. (Acts 27, 22)
And if their fall has proved a great gain to the world, and their loss has proved a great gain to the gentiles -- how much greater a gain will come when all is restored to them! (Romans 11, 12)
the one whose work is burnt down will suffer the loss of it, though he himself will be saved; he will be saved as someone might expect to be saved from a fire. (1 Corinthians 3, 15)