| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...which is in them go away ; they die even without wisdom. From the same. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds... | |
| John Lathrop - Memorial service - 1804 - 54 pages
...nothing, before Thee. Verily every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. He cometh forth, as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also, as a shadow, and continueth not. We are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. O God, so teach us to number our... | |
| William Jay - Free churches - 1805 - 486 pages
...decays ? " Stand " with your loins girded, and your lamps burning." " Man, that is born of a woman, is of few days and " full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and " is cut down : he fleeth alfo as ^a fhadow, and c'on" tinueth not." " The fathers, where are they ? and" the prophets, do they... | |
| Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1805 - 544 pages
...called » Psal. Ixxviii. 39. So Psal. ciii. 15. b Jam. iv. 14. grass, Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble''. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down. Grass hath its root in the earth, and is fed by the moisture of it for a while ; but besides... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...resurrection, 1 "]% /TAN [that is] born of a woman, every man that comet A into 3 J.VJL ¡he world, [is] of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; however beautiful, he soon 4uithcreth : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 470 pages
...CHRIST. Amen, Job's account of the Shortness and Troubles of Life, considered. JoB xiv. i, 2. flan that is born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble : He comet h forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he Jlteth also as a shadow, and continueth not. THERE... | |
| James Fisher - Meditations - 1806 - 352 pages
...5. and the place which once knew him, knoweU* him again no more : " Man that is born of a woman is " of few days and full of trouble ; he cometh " forth..." fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth " not," Job xiv. 2. Man in infancy flourisheth like a flower, springeth up in childhood, blossometh and buddeth... | |
| Sir William Forbes - Medicine - 1806 - 578 pages
...than of art : " Man that is born of a " woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a " flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and con" tinueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its... | |
| Sir William Forbes - Authors, Scottish - 1807 - 414 pages
...of art : " Man that is born of a woman " is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh Jl forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its harmony ; and yet every... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 388 pages
...our days upon earth are a shadow. Man, that is born of a womr.n, is of few Q days. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down. He fleeth also as a shadow* and continueth not. I said to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. One dicth... | |
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