 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...SECTION XXI.—Of Death. LESSON CXX. 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. 3 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee; thouhast appointed his bounds... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 436 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Searle - Prayer - 1834 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1834 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Sermons, English - 1835 - 434 pages
...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 - 764 pages
...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 - 200 pages
...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 - 200 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
