 | 1907 - 58 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. Whoso... | |
 | Richard McIlwaine - 1908 - 426 pages
...rendered to his fellow-men, hobbling along in meekness and humility. Then I involuntarily exclaimed, " I have seen servants upon horses and princes walking as servants upon the earth." Such irritating contrasts might be seen almost any day on the streets, but in the privacy of social... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Julius August Brewer - 1910 - 604 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.... | |
 | 1849 - 720 pages
...which proceedcth from the ruler. 6. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. 7. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." (b) "Yet forcible and untimely changes are dangerous: wisdom alone should undertake reforms, according... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 618 pages
...of fortune upon that balance which gives them a sense of the national interest] sit in low places. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." Sad complaints, that the principles of power and of authority, the goods of the mind and of fortune,... | |
 | Minos Devine - 1916 - 256 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite... | |
 | Helen A. Ballard - 1917 - 200 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : Folly is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, And princes walking as servants upon the earth. — Ecc.lthS-7. May 18 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man For the Lord's sake: Whether it... | |
 | Grace Livingston Hill - 1920 - 366 pages
...impulse to seize his sleek shoulder and shake him. Instead she only smiled and quoted a Bible verse : " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." Clive eyed her with a puzzled expression : "I don't getcha!" he answered finally, but Julia Cloud made... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1921 - 332 pages
...among them was not recognized even by "His own." The wise Solomon was never wiser than when he said: "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.""' The mighty Prince of Peace, the glorious King of Heaven, walked unknown and unhonored by his own servants... | |
 | M. Oldfield Howey - 1923 - 264 pages
...case is where the king sent out letters by posts on horseback (Esth. viii. 10). Though the Preacher says, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth " (Eccl. x. 7), he evidently considered it a paradox. Hosea says, " We will not ride upon horses "... | |
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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. 
