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:

bellow as bulls;

JER 50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

JER 50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

JER 50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

JER 50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her

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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:

JOB 35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

JOB 36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,

JOB 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

JOB 36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

JOB 36:4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

JOB 36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

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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:

herself,

JDG 5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

JDG 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

JDG 6:1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

JDG 6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of

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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:

with his teeth.

PSA 37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

PSA 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

PSA 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

PSA 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

PSA 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD

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