 | 1841 - 488 pages
...scripture allusions to the frailty of human life. " He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down." " As the flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone." — There is a melancholy beauty in this imagery thus applied, which at once reaches the... | |
 | Thomas FARLEY - 1841 - 20 pages
...throughout to the language of the text are the Psalmist's words : " As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more" (Ps. ciii. 15, 16). In like manner spake Job... | |
 | 1841 - 450 pages
...a hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee. As for man,, his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more."—Bond's " Flower cut down." From the London... | |
 | 1841 - 138 pages
...For he knoweth our frame : he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone : and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the LoRD is from everlasting... | |
 | 1843 - 396 pages
...years and ten." " It is appointed unto man once to die." " As for man, his days are as grass, as the flower of the field so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more." " For what man is he that shall not see death... | |
 | Frank L. Riley - 1996 - 442 pages
...Pccmandres, the Shepherd of Men, Vol. II, p. 12. Mortal Man 19. "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." —PSALMS 103:15-16. "The heart is deceitful... | |
 | Billy A Melvin - 2012 - 152 pages
...For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting... | |
 | Wayne Fields - 1996 - 258 pages
...over the small cluster of believers on the shore. "As for man, his days are like grass: as a ffower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. Bless ye the Lord." Then... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 pages
...For he knowcth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof knoweth it no more. The opening four verses of Psalm 1 14, the Exodus... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - 2000 - 348 pages
...exclamations, the psalmist's spiritual reminder to all mankind—"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. / For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone"—is recast as a more specific comment on the perishability of women's social value: "For... | |
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As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 
