the light: Job 33:28, Job 33:30; Psalms 56:13; Proverbs 15:30, Proverbs 29:13
a pleasant: Ecclesiastes 7:11; Psalms 84:11; Matthew 5:45
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Ecclesiastes 11:7
Ecclesiastes 11:7
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