 | 1868 - 414 pàgines
...again refer to things both animate and inanimate, as being very efficient teachers. One of them says, "Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."' Another refers to the ant as a model of thrift, foresight, and good order ; and if the reader be willing... | |
 | Abraham O. Baldwin - 1841 - 414 pàgines
...direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. LATHROP. Beasts and Birds Preaching to Man. Job 12: 7. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. LATH HOP. LATHROP. Universal Obligation of Religion. 2 Kings 17: 40, 41. Howbeit they did not hearken,... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 pàgines
...writers, which make it canonical. Job, for antiquity and integrity, justly demands to be first heard : " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and...thee. Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ?"* Deplorable indeed is the state of apostate man, when he is sent to such... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pàgines
...robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : his friends scornfully. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee : and the fishes of the... | |
 | George Moir Bussey - 1842 - 608 pàgines
...i Author of a " Life of Napoleon." ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, DESIGNED BY JJ GRANDVILLE. " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thec . ,r apeak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto... | |
 | George Oliver - 1843 - 396 pàgines
...Carthaginians. 2 Job xxxi. 26—28. 3 Ibid. xxxi. 14 to end. 4 Bishop Tomline's Theol., par. 1. c. 2. shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they...thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?"5 After the death of Abraham, Rebecca bore unto Isaac twin children, Esau... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1844 - 904 pàgines
...goodness? Could any but a kind and gracious Being have done this ? " Ask now of the beasts," says Job, "and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee." But turn, now, from all these, and look — yes, look at one human heart. How infinite the difference... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1844 - 242 pàgines
...and ceremonies. But there is another source of knowledge, which I would not overlook. Job said ; " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and...shall tell thee : or speak to the earth, and it shall instruct thee." I say too, ask the heavens and the earth, and they shall impart some profitable knowledge... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1845 - 36 pàgines
...immediate agency of God, and bid us draw from them lessons of wisdom. "Ask now the beasts," says he, "and they shall teach thee, and the fowls of the air,...teach thee ; and the fishes of the sea shall declare it unto thee. Who knoweth not, in all these, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ? The writers... | |
 | Thomas Manton - 1845 - 624 pàgines
...practical divinity in the very bosom of nature, if we had the skill to find it out. Job biddeth us, "Ask the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls...speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the ashes of the sea shall declare unto thee." They speak by our thoughts. Secondly, There is set and solemn... | |
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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee : And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 
