 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1834
...far better (or, for this is much rather to be preferred, or better.) ' MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble ; he cometh forth...and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continaeth not ; and dost thou open thine eyes upon sach a one, and bringest me into judgment with... | |
 | Time - 1835
...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... | |
![Sermons, with a memoir of the author [by C.T. Gauntlett].](http://bks4.books.google.co.nz/books?id=yanVUwOPEk0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Sermons, with a memoir of the author [by C.T. Gauntlett].") | Henry Gauntlett, Catharine T. Gauntlett - 1835
...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... | |
 | Thomas Bissland - 1835
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1835
...angels, can retain us here when death says, Depart, or God says, Come. " Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble ; he cometh forth...and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continued) not." Prepared, or unprepared, we must go. Man's life is like a lighted torch, either extinguished... | |
 | William Samways Oke - 1836 - 176 pagine
...with him that begs his bread, Bless'd with the love divine. As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind...the place thereof shall know it no more. Psalm ciii. v. 15 and 16. How frail the joys humanity can boast! The fairest are but blossoms of to-day. To-morrow... | |
 | William Samways Oke - 1836
...with him that begs his bread, Bless'd with the love divine. As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind...the place thereof shall know it no more. Psalm ciii. v. 15 and 16. How frail the joys humanity can boast ! The fairest are but blossoms of to-day. To-morrow... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836
...abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke, xii. 13-15. DEATH. 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. l, 2. Man dieth, and wasteth away1 yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 2010 - 422 pagine
...himself to " a leaf driven to and fro." " As for man," says the Psalmist, " his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth ; for the wind...thereof shall know it no more ;" Psalm ciii. 15, 16. Such are a few of the simple and pathetic allusions of the Hebrew poets to the flower-like frailty... | |
 | 1837 - 255 pagine
...she was permitted to attend the funeral. The minister's text was; " Man that 6? 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 !" By which and subsequent remarks, she understood that all were to die ; that there was a state of... | |
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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. 
