 | 1815 - 614 pages
...which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pages
...is an evil, that Solomon detested: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low places ; I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. .They, who understand Solomon's language, will easily. see that the. rich and the princes he means.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...is an evil, that Solomon detested: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low places ; I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. They, who understand Solomon's language, .will easily see that the rich and the princes he means are... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pages
...wAicA proceedetli from the ruler : € Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 / 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; wisdom faileth Aim, one that he is a and whoso breaketh... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 520 pages
...order he describes by a kind of caricature that cannot fail of exciting disgust, if not ridicule; / have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth c. It is Providence that has made the difference between the one and the other. The servant ought therefore... | |
 | Zebulon Ely, Ezra Stiles Ely - 1825 - 64 pages
...distressing circumstances, and with the most gloomy prospects, continued. 51 The wise king in Israel saith, "I have seen servants upon horses and princes walking as servants, upon the earth." God's judgments are a great deep. 3. We cannot find out the Almighty to perfection, in the kingdom... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...the wise man seems to allude, in his account of the disorders which occasionally prevail in society : "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."7 But while the higher orders in the east commonly affect so much state, and maintain so great... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...hare-footed and in tatters, and we have more than once called to mind the words of the son uf Si rach, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." It is said that time suhdues feelings and passions, and that hour after hour wears away the strongest... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...themselves now reign which ought to be things quite subservient ; and as it is said, Eccles. x. 7, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." There is a danger, I say, lest the ceremonialist should trust that he pleases God on account of his... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 566 pages
...themselves now reign which ought to be things quite subservient ; and as it is said, Eccles. x. 7, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." There is a danger, I say, lest the ceremonialist should trust that he pleases God on account of his... | |
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 
