 So am I made to possess months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.  The Classical Journal - Page 3251819Full view - About this book
 | mrs Rueful (pseud.) - 1800 - 234 pages
...their only remaining shield—but alas ! this small boon being denied, they exclaim with one of old, " so am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say when shall I arise, and the night be gone ? I am full of tossings to and fro... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...there not an appointed time to man upon ear*h ? are not his days also like the day of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as...vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone ? and I am full of tossings to and... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1804 - 376 pages
...fubject to Vanity. u J would not live always, becauje my Days are Vanity. As a Servant earneilly defireth the Shadow, and as an Hireling looketh for the Reward of his Work ; Jo longeth my Soul for thee, O God, becaufe thy Loving- kindnefs is better than Life. p Pfal. 39.... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...I thought I could never be happy any more. The world became as a wilderness unto me. ' I am,' said I, ' made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed unto me.' When I lie down, I said, ' When shall I arise, and the night be gone ? I am full of tossing... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...not an appointed time to man •^ upon earth ? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ? 2 r o/'his work : 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights arc appointed to me.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Future life - 1811 - 466 pages
...In what melancholy language does Job discover his sensations of the tiresome nature of pain ? "I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me: When I lie down I say, when shall I rise and the night be gone ? And I am full of tossing to and fro... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...For the creature was made subject to vanity. (u) \ would not live always, because my days are vanity. As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work; 19 longeth my soul for thee, O God, because thy loving.kindness is better than l:fe. (f) Psal. .19.6.... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - Hebrew language - 1812 - 288 pages
...upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desiretli the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work; 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward o/'his work : 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...appointed time to JL man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? 2 As a servant f and Andrew Strahan : 3 So am I made to possess 'months of e Dent •- """ity, and wearisome nights are appoint«7;ch.... | |
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