Tao Bible - Lamentations 2:4

He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
~ King James version ~

The Tao of heaven is like the bending of a bow.
The high is lowered, and the low is raised.
If the string is too long, it is shortened;
If there is not enough, it is made longer.
The Tao of heaven is to take from those who have too much and give to those who do not have enough.
~ from Verse 77 of the Tao Te Ching ~

Both passages use a bow to make a point. In the biblical version, the bow is used as a weapon to kill and injure. It could be said that it utilizes the bow as a negative connotation.

In the TTC, the bow is neither positive nor negative. It is used to describe the intermingling forces of yin and yang.

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