 | Church of Scotland - 1802 - 332 Seiten
...Our foundation is in the duft, and we dwell in cottages of clay. • Man that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble: he cometh forth like a flower, he fleeth alfo as a fhadow and is not. Lord, what is man? Surely every man livingj even at his beft... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 470 Seiten
...CHRIST. Amen, Job's account of the Shortness and Troubles of Life, considered. JoB xiv. i, 2. flan that is born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble : He comet h forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he Jlteth also as a shadow, and continueth not. THERE... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 Seiten
...18-1. JOB'S ACCOUNT OF THE SHORTNESS AND TROUBLES OF LIFK CONSIDERED. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble : — He cometh forth like a flower, anil is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. — —Job. xiv. 1, 2. SERMON XI.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 Seiten
...this is much rather to lie preferred, or better — Pnn» I. 23. ' MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble: he cometh forth like a flower, aud is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not ; and dost thou open thine eyes upon... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1822 - 366 Seiten
...himself, whose works are so fragile, where is he? The history of his works is the history of himself. He existed; he is gone. The nature of human life cannot...immediately precedes the text. "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... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - 1827 - 214 Seiten
...feet. 28 And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away ; Like a garment, which is moth-eaten. XIV. 1 Man, that is born of woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down ; He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth... | |
 | 1828 - 506 Seiten
...cruelty. But observe, fourthly, the wisdom of God in directing and controlling these sorrowful events. ' " Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble." He is a sufferer ; his bosom bleeds with anguish ; but this very suffering is benignly made a bond of... | |
 | William Newnham - 1832 - 258 Seiten
...certain approach of death to a very distant, and yet more distant day. " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flbwer, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."* Human life, indeed, is aptly... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - 1833 - 626 Seiten
...it is impossible, that there is no return from the dominions of the dead. * Gen. ix. 4—6. 170 Man, born of 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. Upon such dost thou open... | |
 | Francis Close - 1834 - 462 Seiten
...a frail, perishing creature of a day, that dies before the moth ! " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble ; he cometh forth like a flower ;" he may be blooming and gay, and diffusing fragrance around him, but " like a flower he is cut down... | |
| |
Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. 
