swalloweth

(compare Pr 6: 12). scorneth judgment -- sets at naught the dictates of justice. devoureth -- literally, "swalloweth," as something delightful.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

And the present was a cup of ruby a span high85 the inside of which was adorned with precious pearls; and a bed covered with the skin of the serpent which swalloweth the elephant, which skin hath spots each like a dinar and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth; 86 and an hundred thousand miskals of Indian lign-aloes and a slave-girl like a shining moon.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Solomon, son of David (on both be peace!) and therein are serpents of vast bulk and fearsome aspect: and what ship soever cometh to these climes there riseth to her a great fish90 out of the sea and swalloweth her up with all and everything on board her.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The horse in the light of an useful beast, fit for the plough, the road, the draft; in every social useful light, the horse has nothing sublime; but is it thus that we are affected with him, whose neck is clothed with thunder, the glory of whose nostrils is terrible, who swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, neither believeth that it is the sound of the trumpet?

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

'He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage', 'he quoted softly.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

This vale swalloweth vp all heauie things that come vpon it.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

'Neath earth,' neath hell that swalloweth up the dead;

Prometheus Bound 2002

'Neath earth,' neath hell that swalloweth up the dead;

Prometheus Bound 2002