Today's Bibliomancy for Kurt Vonnegut

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:

is a debtor to do the whole law.

GAL 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

GAL 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

GAL 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

GAL 5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

GAL 5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

GAL 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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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:

secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.

SA1 18:23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

SA1 18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

SA1 18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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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:

transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

JOB 35:7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

JOB 35:8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

JOB 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

JOB 35:10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

JOB 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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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:

altogether vain?

JOB 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

JOB 27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

JOB 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

JOB 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

JOB 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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