chooseth

• “Or, "chooseth," as "madest strong for thyself," that is, hast chosen (Ps 80: 15, 17) [Gesenius].”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “For man by nature chooseth the lesser evil, which is danger of death in resisting, rather than the greater, which is certain and present death in not resisting.”

  Some Random Thoughts on the Election

• “All that is said of single-hearted devotedness to God and close following of Christ, is in itself right; the fallacy which Maude very naturally overlooked consists in ignoring that this devotedness to God can only be acceptable to Him when it leads us to follow His leading, not our own ; to do ' what our hand findeth to do,' not what our will chooseth.”

  Academic

• ““He said: ‘When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.’””

  Simon & Schuster: Sleepless

• “He chooseth of them whomso He please to make him His viceroy and viceregent over”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “As for the kingdom, Allah the Most High shall send to it whomso He chooseth, for that I have no longer a desire for the kingship.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Of a truth whoso knoweth the abiding-place of excellent things, maketh better choice in what he chooseth therefrom, so perchance he may advantage his brethren; and indeed I should love to wone near thee and I have sued for thine intimacy, to the end that we may help each other to our several objects; and success shall surely wait upon our amity.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “When that any gan gain this and chooseth one who doth beseem him, naught availeth so greatly for woe of heart.”

  The Nibelungenlied

• “Making laws belongs to the lord of the family, who by his own discretion chooseth his chaplain, as also a schoolmaster to teach his children.”

  Leviathan

• “Austin terms it, a fearful passion, wherein the party oppressed thinks he can get no ease but by death, and is fully resolved to offer violence unto himself; so sensible of his burthen, and impatient of his cross, that he hopes by death alone to be freed of his calamity (though it prove otherwise), and chooseth with Job vi.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

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