27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs 6:27
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2 Esdras 16:5–7
5 Calamities are sent upon you, and who is there to drive them away? (WEB) 6 Can one drive away a hungry lion in the forest? Can one quench a fire in stubble, once it has begun to burn? (WEB) 7 Can one turn back an arrow that is shot by a strong archer? (WEB)
Job 36:18–20
18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray. 19 Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress? 20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Sirach 34:3–5
3 The vision of dreams is a reflection, the likeness of a face near a face. (WEB) 4 From an unclean thing what can be cleansed? From that which is false what can be true? (WEB) 5 Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain. The heart has fantasies like a woman in labor. (WEB)
Job 14:3–5
3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? 4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! 5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
James 3:10–12
10 Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be! 11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Sirach 34:24–26
24 When one prays, and another curses, whose voice will the Lord listen to? (WEB) 25 He who washes himself after touching a dead body, and touches it again, what does he gain by his washing? (WEB) 26 Even so a man fasting for his sins, and going again, and doing the same, who will… (WEB)
Job 41:12–14
12 I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form. 13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle? 14 Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
Proverbs 20:8–10
8 A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes. 9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”? 10 Differing weights and unequal measures — both are detestable to the LORD.
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