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" As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more. "
Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey - Page 94
by George Mogridge - 1842
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Biblical topography, lectures

Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...for example, in the 103rd Psalm, verses 15 and 16 : — " As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more ;" also the prediction of Sennacherib's overthrow...
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Knowledge and love compared, with a life of the author by A. Clarke

Richard Baxter - 1840 - 234 pages
...for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust : as for man his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is not, and the place thereof, shall know it no more : but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting...
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The closet companion, containing a portion of parallel Scripture selected ...

John Boulby - 1840 - 228 pages
...alone can defend you in times of danger, need, &c. OCT. 31. As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more. Psalm ciii. 15, 16. For all flesh if as grass,...
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Old Humphrey's observations

George Mogridge - 1841 - 374 pages
...fading lily, without the sad, yet salutary remembrance, that, " as for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind...thereof shall know it no more," Psa. ciii. 15, 16. Yet though our bodies be frail as the frailest flower, though they perish, yet again shall they arise...
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Cornelius the Centurion

Frederic Adolphus Krummacher, John Willison Ferguson - 1841 - 224 pages
...eyes of God. In the external world, man is but a cipher : ' As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.' Psalm ciii. 15, 16. So it is with all the...
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The Book of Common Prayer: Reformed, for the Use of Christian Churches Whose ...

1841 - 138 pages
...For he knoweth our frame : he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone : and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the LoRD is from everlasting...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 1

1841 - 346 pages
...seal of clay, and his spirit has gone to Him who gave it. Such is man! His days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more." When the trials of years shall have palsied...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 608 pages
...same response, and he too has repeated and recorded them. 'As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.' • • • Oh bond unbroken between Nature's...
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The Patriarch; Or Family Library Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1841 - 488 pages
...scripture allusions to the frailty of human life. " He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down." " As the flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone." — There is a melancholy beauty in this imagery thus applied, which at once reaches the...
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Sudden Death. A sermon [on Is. xl. 6, 7].

Thomas FARLEY - 1841 - 20 pages
...throughout to the language of the text are the Psalmist's words : " As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more" (Ps. ciii. 15, 16). In like manner spake Job...
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