 The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.  Herodotus - Page 9by Herodotus - 1830Full view - About this book
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...find that seventy or eighty years was the extent of Man's life. " The days of our age/' says David, "are threescore years and ten ; and though Men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away and we are gone."* These... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1 But... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...days are gone ; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 11 But... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 pages
...must be acknowledged that many sorrows almost always attend that part of life. " The days of our age are threescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow."t These are the evil days of which Solomon speaks,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 454 pages
...so strong, (perhaps one in a hundred,) that they come to fourscore years, yet then is their strength but labour and sorrow: so soon passeth it away, and we are gone !" 2. Now what a poor pittance of duration is this, compared to the life of Methuselah ? " And Methuselah... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...has been here altered. — T.* * To seventy years.] — See Psalm xc. verse 10. " The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong th'at they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone," VOL.... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...our days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow -, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodists services - 1817 - 278 pages
...days are gone : we bring our years to an end as it were a tale thnt is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow : so soon it passeth away, and we are gone. 1 1 But... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 606 pages
...sometimes, and that but very seldom indeed, comparatively speaking, " they come to fourscore years, yet " is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so " soon passeth it away, and we are gone." And what use does the Psalmist make of this consideration? It follows in the next verse but one ; "... | |
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