 | Herbert Rowland - 1997 - 344 pàgines
...wording, indeed, the third line of the stanza alludes to Job 14:1-2: "Man that is born of 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" (my emphasis)—a passage to which Claudius also refers... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - 1997 - 572 pàgines
...thus like smoke. I always think of that passage in Job (XIV: 1.2) “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.” When I think of that, and how ideas and notions and... | |
 | Stanley Weintraub - 1998 - 236 pàgines
...especially now, the bitter melancholy words of Job could still reach me. '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" (252). With just six explicit references to the Bible,... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2001 - 420 pàgines
...RBY Scott (‘AV' and ‘Scott' respectively). a Cf. Job 14:1—2: ‘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.' 3 For further similarities with Ecclesiastes see also... | |
 | Allan I. Ludwig - 1999 - 542 pàgines
...with flowers since at least the time of the Scriptures. Job 14 reads, Man that is born of 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. In Isaiah 40.6 the flowers of the field are compared not... | |
 | S. Brent Plate, David Jasper - 1999 - 248 pàgines
...is echoed, in turn, by the preacher's graveside homily for Thomas: “Man that is born of woman is a few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down” (Job, chapter 14, the first verse). And if any man could know the sufferings of Job,... | |
 | 2000 - 64 pàgines
...wrongs and look upon trouble? Hahakkak 1:2—j 25 THE HUMAN CONDITION 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 conunueth not... For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 514 pàgines
...cloud to meet the pall, Though light forsake thee, never fall 74:7-74:70 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 an one, and bringest... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pàgines
...And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. 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 a one, and bringest... | |
 | Will Durant - 2002 - 351 pàgines
...and he sees earthly existence as a daily deferment of inevitable death: Man that is born of 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. . . . For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down,... | |
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