Today's Bibliomancy for Donald Rumsfeld

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible:

JOB 38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

JOB 38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

JOB 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

JOB 38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

JOB 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

JOB 38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou

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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible:

words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

JOB 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

JOB 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

JOB 8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

JOB 8:6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

JOB 8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

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The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible:

commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

DEU 5:17 Thou shalt not kill.

DEU 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

DEU 5:19 Neither shalt thou steal.

DEU 5:20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

DEU 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

DEU 5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,

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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible:

JDG 16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

JDG 16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

JDG 16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

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