 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2091846Full view - About this book
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 524 pages
...David, "are threescore years and ten ; and though Men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away and we are gone."* These exact adaptions to circunv stances and situation can be accounted for in no other manner but... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath ? for even thereafter as a man feareth, BO is thy displeasure.... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Glory be to the Father, and... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 454 pages
...so strong, (perhaps one in a hundred,) that they come to fourscore years, yet then is their strength but labour and sorrow: so soon passeth it away, and we are gone !" 2. Now what a poor pittance of duration is this, compared to the life of Methuselah ? " And Methuselah... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong th'at they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone," VOL. J. F fifty days, yet of this number every day will be productive of some new incident. Thus, Croesus,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1814 - 422 pages
...our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone." « His end of life be fortunate.] — This sentence of Solon is paraphrased by Sophocles, in his (Edipus... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath : for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow -, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 1 1 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath : for even thereafter as (b) a man feareth, so is thy... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 606 pages
...sometimes, and that but very seldom indeed, comparatively speaking, " they come to fourscore years, yet " is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so " soon passeth it away, and we are gone." And what use does the Psalmist make of this consideration? It follows in the next verse but one ; "... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1819 - 558 pages
...our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Glory be to the Father, and... | |
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