 | Colin McIver - Sermons, American - 1824 - 434 pages
...our breath. Man, with all his boasted wisdom and strength, is the creature of a day. " He cometh up like " a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, " and continueth not." In whatever situation we find him, whether figuring in all the grandeur of a court, or immured in the... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...stubble ? for theu writest bitter things against me. — Job xiii. 25, 26. Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble: he cometh forth like a flower, and is cat down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not: and dost thou open thine eyes upon such a... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 434 pages
...contained in these words of Job ? " Man that is born of a woman hath but a few days to live, and is full of trouble. He cometh forth like a. flower, and is -cut down : he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not." We have already seen, that the human race has not above two-and-twenty... | |
 | Sunday schools - 1824 - 412 pages
...spend our days as a tale that is told — they pass as 4 dreara in the night." " Man cometh forth as a flower and is cut down — he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not. They are like grass which groweth up— in the morning it flourisheth, in the evening it is cut down... | |
 | Christianity - 1822 - 768 pages
...Education.— TJ\O. VI. 647 '8-1 does it immediately. They merely breathe, gasp and die. " He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not." Your dear sister, in less than one year, buried three lovely children ! one half of her number. " The... | |
 | Richard Hele - Devotional literature - 1825 - 598 pages
...with God, without a timely repentance of all the sins of our life. 1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not a. Man dieth and wasteth away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost ; and where is he b ? His days are determined... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 486 pages
...suffer by us, complaining and pleading, in language like that of Job : Man, that is barn of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like...: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thott open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee ? — Seeing... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 660 pages
...upon earth ? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling " ?" " Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble : he cometh forth...down: he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not °." " Now my days are swifter than a post : they flee away : they see no good : they are passecj away... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1825 - 588 pages
...the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass:" Is. xl, 6, 7. "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:" Job xiv, 1, 2. And as the life of a man is but as " a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 pages
...never gain. Let such men, therefore, seriously reflect, that " man born of a woman is of few days, that he cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." Others there are on whom the interests of life have very strong hold, who relax their thoughts by pleasure,... | |
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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 also as a shadow, and continueth not. 
