| Thomas Carpenter (schoolmaster.) - 1828 - 332 pages
...heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deut. vi. 4, 5. 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.* Job xiv. 1,2. Am I a God at hand, saith... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pages
...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass :" Isa. xl, 6, 7. " 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:" Job xiv, 1, 2. And as the life of a man... | |
| Robert Leighton - 1830 - 558 pages
...Make me to know my life, how frail I am. So James, (iv. 14,) What is your life! it is even a vapour. And here it is called grass. So Job, (xiv. 1, 2,)...full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and in cut down. Grass hath its root in the earth, and is fed by the moisture of it. for a while ; but... | |
| 1832 - 460 pages
...word of God has been abundantly established by melancholy fact — " 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." But there is consolation brought to the... | |
| Christopher Ralph Muston - 1830 - 458 pages
...survivors the anxious and doubtful inquiry — " And where is he?" Thus " 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."* What combinations are here of meanness... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 630 pages
...is but short, and, therefore, the sorrows of this life are but short. 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. (Job xiv. 1, 2.) Though our days are evil,... | |
| Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 506 pages
...: in chapter xiv. Job represents the miserable condition of man ; ' 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.' On this representation he expostulates... | |
| John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - 1830 - 454 pages
...sorrow, and disappointment form the principal ingredients in his cup. " 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." One grief rolls- in quick succession after... | |
| Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 512 pages
...: in chapter xiv. Job represents the miserable condition of man : ' 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.' On this representation he expostulates... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1799 - 152 pages
...remainder of life ; and, XV. rejoices in his happy situation. I. " 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." " And dost thou open thine eyes upon such... | |
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