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Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
- Genesis 49:27
So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
- Numbers 13:32
I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
- Deuteronomy 32:42
It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
- Job 18:13
Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
- Job 39:24
“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.’
- Jeremiah 46:14
“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
- Jeremiah 48:45
No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?
- Ezekiel 15:4
My cheek blanches white while I write; I start at the scratch of my pen; my own mad brood of eagles devours me; fain would I unsay this audacity; but an iron-mailed hand clenches mine in a vice, and prints down every letter in my spite.
- Herman Melville
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
- Henri Matisse