 | 1815 - 294 pages
...the heavens. Can a man be profitable unto God ? Is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect ? All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine : as for the world and the fulness thereof thou hast... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 748 pages
...counted as the finali duft of the balance; behold, he taketh up the iflcs as a very little tiling. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him let's than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God, or what likenela will ye compare unto... | |
 | Robert Morehead - 1816 - 492 pages
...balance ? " Who hath directed the spirit of the f Lord, or being his counsellor, hath **taught him? Behold the nations are " as a drop of a bucket, and are count" ed as die small dust of the balance: " behold he taketh up the isles as a very " little thing.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pages
...the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.' 2. From this greatness and immensity of God also, thy soul must reverently stay all its busy, bold... | |
 | 1817 - 506 pages
...pious David, " What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitcst him ?" " Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing ;" nor shall we wonder at this, if, even with our imperfect faculties, we endeavour to glance a little... | |
 | Seth Williston - 1817 - 274 pages
...matter in the sun, and the supposed atom : But who can be compared with God ? Behold the nations are but as a drop, of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance s behold he taketh vfi the isles as a very little thing. Ml nations beterest : hut the truth is, that... | |
 | 1817 - 514 pages
...pious David, " What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him ?" " Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small oust of the balance: behold, hetaketh up the isles as a very little thing ;" nor shall we wonder at... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 422 pages
...hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught Him ? Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...are counted to Him less than nothing and vanity." Upon this subject the sacred writers seem to have exhausted all the power of language, and at last... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1818 - 616 pages
...the earth in a meafure, and weighed the mountains infcales, and the kills in a balance;—before whom the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of a balance;—yea, before whom all nations are as nothing, and are counted to him lefs... | |
 | 610 pages
...taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment; and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way...counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takcth up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof... | |
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and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as... 
