 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1865 - 398 pages
...cobra's domicile. We find a passage in the prophet Amos that distinctly alludes to this fact : — ' As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.' Amos v.... | |
 | 1865 - 610 pages
...into the jaws of the whirlwind ; or rather, to express it in the Prophet's words, it will be to him 'as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned bis hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him;'* the end,... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1865 - 292 pages
...the night as it brightens into morning. When he wants to speak of sudden and unexpected danger, it is "as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him." Or, if he... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...lix. 1 1 ; and the prophet Amos thus describes a man who, shunning one danger, falls into another: "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him," Amos v. 19.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...into the jaws of the whirlwind ; or rather, to express it in the Prophet's words, it will be to him " as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house 18C6.J [March, and leaned his hand on tie wall, and a serpent bit him... | |
 | Paul Baynes - 1866 - 430 pages
...against the wicked to consume them, God hath a pit, snare, fear ; as Isa. xxiv. 17, or as Amos v. 19, ' As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him ;' that is,... | |
 | William Taylor - 1867 - 212 pages
...unavoidable, and I fall back upon my motives for comfort, alas ! as the prophet Amos says, it is " As if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into his house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him." The homely... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1879 - 672 pages
...the more they are entangled ; they shuffle themselves from under one calamity and fall into another, as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall auda serpent bit him (Amos v. 19).... | |
 | Loyalist - 1867 - 354 pages
...the wind, and is tossed about by the whirlwind ; or, in the words of the prophet, ' it will be to him as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him ; or he went into the house, and leaned his head against the wall, and a serpent bit him.'... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 482 pages
...to you, who now make yourselves the day of judgment, but only to clear merry with it ! — Caryl. " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. w Shall not... | |
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit... 
