 | Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...greatly Harassed by them. He says, ver. 2, 3, ' my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh .lipped; for I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.' Still worse, be was tempted to express himself, ver. 13, 14, ' I have cleansed my heart in vain, and... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1841 - 700 pages
...and distress of every kind. " My feet," says he, " were almost gone ; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. " (w) At length he concludes his account of them: " When I thought to know this, it was too painful... | |
 | Church history - 1841 - 848 pages
...have been in great perplexity, when perceiving how the wicked prosper. Thus was it with Asaph : — " I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked ;" until he went into the sanctuary, and then he found out his mistake ; " thon understood I their... | |
 | Samuel Roffey Maitland - 1841 - 304 pages
...pacem tibi ;" and in the latter, "zelavi super iniquos, pacem peccatorum videns." In our version, " I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked." . behalfe, let it be the end of the test; either that I shall adopt strife : that either I may be the... | |
 | Samuel Roffey Maitland - Martyrologies - 1841 - 586 pages
...pacem tibi ;" and in the latter, "zelavi super iniquos, pacem peceatorum videns." In our version, " I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked." behalfe, let it be the end of the test ; cither that I shall adopt strife : that either I may be the... | |
 | H. L. Willmington - Bible - 1981 - 1038 pages
...Psalm 73 Selection: "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped" (73:2). (2 (v. 3). "They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men" (v. 5). "Their... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat so 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other... | |
 | William Arnot - Religion - 1978 - 588 pages
...He frankly confesses how far he fell : " My feet were almost gone ; my steps had well-nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked." He saw great wickedness and great prosperity meeting in the same persons : forthwith the presumptuous... | |
 | Valerie Grosvenor Myer - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 200 pages
...probation',3 and exhort them to consider the doctrine of future rewards, quoting the words of the psalmist, 'for I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.'4 If it is not more explicit about the 'great end' the author had 'in view', it is because,... | |
 | Mary J. Carruthers - History - 1992 - 440 pages
...memoria sententialiter. 40 "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked." In De arca Noe morali, nI, iv (PL 176, 65oC). 41 "Rejoicing in the habitable part of the earth; and... | |
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T'RULY God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 
