'Purpose' in the Bible
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!
If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)
Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!
But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
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- Aim (30 instances)
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