 | 1828 - 506 pages
...him from his birth. Afflictions weigh him down, and " make his beauty to consume away like a moth." " He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down : he fleeth like a shadow and continueth not." AH ranks and all ages alike experience one melancholy lot. The royal... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pages
...Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass :" Isa. xl, 6, 7. " 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:" Job xiv, 1, 2. And as the life of a man is but as " a vapour,... | |
 | 1829 - 1012 pages
...ETarment that is moth-eaten. CHAP. XIV. MAN that is born of a woman it 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 conlimieth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a une, and bringest... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 506 pages
...another passage which will not admit of this construction : in chapter xiv. Job represents the miserable condition of man ; ' Man that is born of a woman is...cometh forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.' On this representation he expostulates his case with God : '... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 512 pages
...another passage which will not admit of this construction : in chapter xiv. Job represents the miserable condition of man : ' Man that is born of a woman is...cometh forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.' On this representation he expostulates his case with God : '... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 630 pages
...is but short, and, therefore, the sorrows of this life are but short. 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. (Job xiv. 1, 2.) Though our days are evil, they are but few.... | |
 | Christopher Ralph Muston - 1830 - 458 pages
...survivors the anxious and doubtful inquiry — " And where is he?" Thus " 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."* What combinations are here of meanness and grandeur ! What... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1799 - 152 pages
...remainder of life ; and, XV. rejoices in his happy situation. I. " 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." " And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest... | |
 | 1832 - 460 pages
...word of God has been abundantly established by melancholy fact — " 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." But there is consolation brought to the soul of the afflicted... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - 1830 - 454 pages
...sorrow, and disappointment form the principal ingredients in his cup. " 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." One grief rolls- in quick succession after another ; and his... | |
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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. 
