 I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.  Ezra to Malachi - Page 291815Full view - About this book
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pages
...confirmation from the experience of mankind, in every age of the world, viz. " That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong: neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed, to make them the... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 pages
...confirmation from the experience of mankind, in every age of the world, viz. " That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong : neither yet...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed, to make them the... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...every kind of statement — "-Who knoweth what is good for man in this life?" " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all." " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way ?" " He performeth the thing... | |
 | Peter Dobell - 1834 - 108 pages
...of the Preacher to those who are only "wise in their own conceit:" Ecclesiastes, chap, ix, 11.—I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not...men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.—12th, For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as... | |
 | Franz Josef Gall - 1835 - 372 pages
...and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead." Ibid, ix. 2, 3. "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time... | |
 | William Giles - 1836 - 172 pages
...low, and lifteth up : or with Him that excelled in wisdom and understanding, The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; neither yet...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Trade, in all its branches, is precarious, and its advantages uncertain. The principles of mankind... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1836 - 416 pages
...faithful." SERMON XV. ON THE INSUFFICIENCY OF MAN. ECCLESIASTES, CHAP. IX. VERSE 11. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all. I CANNOT but recal to mind that, on the first day of the now nearly-departed year, I addressed you... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...i. s2. The Lord hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. [Ps. xxxv. 27. PROVIDENCE (OF GOD). I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understand. ing, nor yet favour to men of skill 1 but time and chance happen eth to them all. [Eccles,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 pages
...work to be done, no device to be contrived, no use of knowledge or wisdom. IX. 11. I returned, andsaw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but lime and chance happeneth to them aU. I saw and observed, that, here on earth, all things do not fall... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...seen by those who have diligently observed human counsels and events, " that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all," Ecc. ix. 11. As all human affairs are liable to accidents and disasters, a firm persuasion, and serious... | |
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