| James Tucker - 2005 - 353 pages
...battle to the strong, neither do the wise always have bread, nor riches to the men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all.' In other words, fate and death are the best one can hope for. These great thinkers insist, because... | |
| Christopher R. Miller - 2006 - 12 pages
...similarly stoic passage from Ecclesiastes: "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all" (AV, Eccles. 9.11). The "meanest flower" that gives "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears"... | |
| David F. Noble - 2005 - 224 pages
...efforts by a universe that is not knowable and not cut to human specifications. "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Koheleth rejects outright the divine order supposedly revealed in the promise to the patriarchs and... | |
| PrayerForPreemies.com - 2006 - 394 pages
...in the grave, whither thou goest. 1ll returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
| Oneil McQuick - 2006 - 99 pages
...hath made crooked" (Ecc 7:13)? In other words, it is not of him that wills, "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all" (Ecc 9:11). So then a man having wealth and the poor begging bread is not because of any faculty of... | |
| J. Timothy Cole, Bradley R. Foley - 2014 - 300 pages
...hopefully they won't have to hear us talk about Leventhorpe for a while! ... the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. —Ecclesiastes 9:1 Contents Acknowledgments v Preface 1 1. English Roots: Ancestry, Youth and the... | |
| James Riddle - 2006 - 305 pages
...wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. ~ PRAYER ~ Father, You alone are my God. I do not trust in my own abilities to bring in my harvest.... | |
| Rhonda Lofton - 2006 - 270 pages
...and pleasant riches. Proverbs 24:4 . / returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to _ the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9: 1 1 Blessed is the man that _ walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, _ nor standeth... | |
| EBENEZER GYASI - 2006 - 200 pages
...disappointed. In Ecclesiastes we read: I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (Ecclesiastes 9:11) You can only be at the right place at the right time when the Holy Spirit leads... | |
| Carla Hutton Batchelor - 2006 - 74 pages
...of every season of your life. i| "I returned,, and saw under the sun., that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and i chance happeneth to them all." \JEcclesiastes 9:11 Doo't settle for mediocrity. Don't think that... | |
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