 | Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes - 1841 - 574 pages
...more ; they talk the wildest nonsense, and are governed entirely by their imaginations. Thus, alas ! it is with the generality of mankind in the present...evil ; but to do good they have no knowledge : there is none that understandeth ; there is none that seeketh after God." To bring them to themselves by... | |
 | 1841 - 224 pages
...people is foolish, they have not known me ; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Hos. iv. 1, 6. — For the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there... | |
 | 1851 - 428 pages
...hardness of their heart ; and there is no illustration more impressive of the import of this statement: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. If, now, collecting your observations, and seeking to ascertain the total amount of sobriety, of moral... | |
 | Lowell Temperance Union - 1841 - 292 pages
...persist in the work of death, their departure would be a blessed riddance. They are sottish children ; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Let them depart, without having their places supplied by others, and the great woes of the world would... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1842 - 360 pages
...people is foolish, they have not known me ; they are sottish children, they have none understanding : they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge." Jer. iv. 22. And this must be unlearned : " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1842 - 348 pages
...people is foolish, they have not known me ; they are sottish children, they have none understanding : they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge." Jer. iv. 22. And this must be unlearned : " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...people are foolish, they have not known me ; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding ; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. — Jer. iv. 22 ; viii. 7 ; ix. 3. 6 ; v. 21 ; Hosea v. 4. Let him that glorieth glory in this, that... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1842 - 306 pages
...is convinced that there is "a spirit which ruleth in the hearts of the children of disobedience." " They are wise to do evil ; but to do good they have no knowledge." Intimately connected with their ignorance, is their superstition. They believe in second-sight, in... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...people 15 foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding : they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form and void ; and the heavens, and they had no light.... | |
 | C. Webster - 1843 - 258 pages
...that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness ?" Matt. vi. 23. It is mere Satanic cunning: "They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge." Jer. iv. 22. It inclines the will to choose darkness in preference to light: " They did not desire... | |
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For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 
