 | Sir William Forbes, James Beattie - College teachers - 1807 - 572 pages
...than of art : " Man that is born of a " woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a " flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and con" tinueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 pages
...of art : " Man that is born of a woman " is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh " forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continuetli not. ' Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its... | |
 | Thomas Smith Webb - Freemasonry - 1808 - 348 pages
...vale of tears. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down ; 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... | |
 | Samuel Scott - Quakers - 1809 - 288 pages
...declining State. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? " he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord 1n mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life... | |
 | Samuel Scott - Quakers - 1809 - 296 pages
...declining state. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? " he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord in mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life... | |
 | Mary Waring - Experience (Religion) - 1809 - 576 pages
...state. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? ': he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord in mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - Natural theology - 1809 - 428 pages
...beanty, but we resemble it likewis* in the shortuess of our days: for " Man, that U born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and i» cut down." Let us so live, that when that time conies, good people may regret us, and weep over... | |
 | John Bevans - Religious education of children - 1810 - 134 pages
...likeness, after his image. Job. xiv. 1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. i Psal. Ii. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity;... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 416 pages
...its present length. Yet in what diminutive terms he speaks of it. " 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 as a shadow, and continueth not." What similitudes shall we find to\ represent its shortness now ?... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - Sermons, English - 1812 - 478 pages
...conftruction ; in chap. xiv. Job reprefents the miferable condition of man : 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 alfo as a Jhadow, and continueth not. Upon this reprefentation he expoftulates his cafe. with God;... | |
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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. 
