 | 1832 - 670 pàgines
...forcibly impress on us the humiliating reflection of the patriarch Job, " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." Job xiv, 1, 2. Occupation of Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel were heirs apparent to the whole world :... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pàgines
...appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Job xiv. 1, 2, 5. — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Seeing his days are determined,- the number of his months are with thee : thou hast appointed his bounds... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1833 - 572 pàgines
...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass :" Isa. xl, 6, 7. " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not:" Job xiv, 1, 2. And as the life of a man is but as " a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pàgines
...STIRLING. How sublime and appropriate is that exclamation of Job, — " Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like...down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not ! " Jeremy Taylor has beautifully described the transition from life and activity, from bloom and beauty,... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pàgines
...than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope."$ And elsewhere : " Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like...: he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not." || The twenty-ninth and thirtieth chapters joined together form the sixth and undoubtedly the most... | |
 | Thomas Searle - 1834 - 284 pàgines
...the strength of stones ? or is my flesh of brass ? Job vi. 11, 12. Man that is borti of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not, Job xiv. 1,2. For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are but as... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 436 pàgines
...frailty of man, yet how often we read them without feeling their truth ! " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." Job xiv. 1, 2. In the village church-yard, the dear young ladies whom I mentioned have erected a tomb,... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pàgines
...the first place, he speaks of the shortness and uncertainty of life. " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth...: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." The life of man is here computed not by years, nor by months ; but by days. And of these days, there... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pàgines
...nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. — Job viii. 9. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth..." he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. — xiv. 1, 2. Man, that is of woman born, How fleeting are his days ! Ev'n, as the flower that scents... | |
 | Thomas Bissland - 1835 - 434 pàgines
...beautiful and forcible description of the brevity of human life—" Man that is born of a woman is of a few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like...down, he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." It concludes with a pathetic appeal to the Almighty—" Thou destroyest the hope of man. Thou prevailest... | |
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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. 
