5,132 verses contain “Have” (in the KJV: 3,619, in the BSB: 3,481) — showing 2,001–2,100
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Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
to execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.
Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
for it is better that he says to you, “Come up here!” than that you should be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Two things I ask of You— do not refuse me before I die:
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
“Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!”
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.