In the Bible or Not?

"Dead flies putrefy the perfumer's ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor" (Ecclesiastes 10:1).

Edward FitzGerald's "Solomon's Seal" (1852)

"They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; it shall never produce meal. If it should produce, aliens would swallow it up" (Hosea 8:7).

"After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all My will'" (Acts 13:22).

Old Scottish proverb

"And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day?'" (Matthew 20:6)

Loosely based on "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones" (Proverbs 17:22).

Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism" (1711)

"My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth" (Job 19:20).

John Heywood's A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue (1546)

Made up

Erasmus' Adagia (1508)

"And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself" (Mark 3:21 KJV).

Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1642)

"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it" (Luke 8:5).

John Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)

Thomas H. Palmer's "Teacher's Manual" (1782-1861) and Frederick Maryat's "The Children of the New Forest" (1792-1848)

Misquote of "For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs" (I Timothy 6:10).

Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)