Fondare 41 Risultati per: clay vessel
She turns it as red as a clay seal, she tints it as though it were a dress, (Job 38, 14)
Base silver-plate on top of clay: such are fervent lips and a wicked heart. (Proverbs 26, 23)
for a perishable body presses down the soul, and this tent of clay weighs down the mind with its many cares. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 15)
Or someone else, taking ship to cross the wild waves, loudly invokes a piece of wood frailer than the vessel that bears him. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 1)
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)
Then -- ill -- spent effort!-from the same clay he models a futile god, although so recently made out of earth himself and shortly to return to what he was taken from, when asked to give back the soul that has been lent to him. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
Ashes, his heart; more vile than earth, his hope; more wretched than clay, his life! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Do not try to carry a burden too heavy for you, do not associate with someone more powerful and wealthy than yourself. Why put the clay pot next to the iron cauldron? It will only break when they bang against each other. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 2)
Like clay in the hands of the potter to mould as it pleases him, so are human beings in the hands of their Maker to reward as he judges right. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 13)
he pummels the clay with his arm, and with his feet he kneads it; he concentrates on applying the glaze right and stays up late to clean the kiln. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 30)
like fire and incense in the censer, like a massive golden vessel encrusted with every kind of precious stone, (Ecclesiasticus 50, 9)
How perverse you are! Is the potter no better than the clay? Something that was made, can it say of its maker, 'He did not make me'? Or a pot say of the potter, 'He does not know his job'? (Isaiah 29, 16)