 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...awake, nor bo raised out of their sleep. [Job, xiv. 10-12. As for man, his days are as grass1 as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone 1 and the place thereof shall know it no more. [Psatm ciii. 15, 16. Fear not them which... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...children, So Jehovah pitieth those that fear him : For he knoweth our frame, He remembereth we are but dust. As for man, his days are as grass ; As a flower...he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, And the place thereof knoweth it no more. The mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...himself to " a leaf driven to and fro." " As for man," says the Psalmist, " 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. Such are a few of the... | |
 | Johannes Zollikofer - 1837 - 722 pages
...yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. But 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, end the place thereof knoweth it no more. We appear before Thee, to close in thy presence,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...scythe, and exclaim " Man cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone !" Hay-making is both a pleasant and healthful occupation ; — it is the very life of an... | |
 | Isaac Clinton - 1838 - 210 pages
...Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob ? Exod. 2, 4, 6, is similar. So is Psalm 105, 8, 42, and Psalm 103, 17 : " But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righeousness unto children's children, to such as keep his covenant." Here, again, on condition of... | |
 | John Leifchild, Redford (Rev. Dr.) - 1838 - 472 pages
...are his bones of iron—has he an arm like God, or can he thunder with a voice like him ? No—as a flower of the field so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over him and he is gone." A crumb, a gnat, a hair, a thorn, a speck, or a slip, may make an end of him.... | |
 | John Cox - 1839 - 170 pages
...grass, as the flower of the field, so he flourisheth: 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 to everlasting on them that fear him." Mercy is not like an arch overshadowing time, but... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1839 - 384 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 passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof knoweth it no more," Psa. ciii. 15. Yet though our bodies be frail... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 pages
...or poetry:— EXAMPLE. Human life is short and uncertain. " 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." " Where is to-morrow ? In another world.... | |
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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. 
