| 1811 - 708 pagina’s
...make me to know mint' end, and the measure of my daiis, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth^...every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in a •moment, like the air which we expire; and the... | |
| 1811 - 982 pagina’s
...make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 1 am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verify every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall... | |
| George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pagina’s
...shall I be wkh you, how long shall I suffer you?" 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth) and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best, Heb. settled estate, is altogether vanity. The age of man, or that of the world, is but a span in dimension,... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pagina’s
...what it is : that I may know how frail I a'm. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth : and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state ft altogether vanity. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain... | |
| 1831 - 492 pagina’s
...illustrated by the prophet, (Isa. xliv.) 2. "Nothing," is applied to human life, (Psalm xxxix. 5), " Mine age is as nothing before thee ; verily every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity,'' — nothing when compared with the immeasurable extent and the unnumbered... | |
| 1815 - 614 pagina’s
...make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it; that I may know how frail 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ;...nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state it altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted... | |
| 1815 - 974 pagina’s
...meafure of my days.what it il ; that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou haft made my days at an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his 1»'(! (late is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain fliew : furely they... | |
| Charles Buck - 1815 - 202 pagina’s
...say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, that I may know how frail 'I am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age as nothing before thee. Teach me to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom."* Having... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pagina’s
...Scripture taught us before ? In the xxxixth Psalm, we find David saying, Surely every man walTeeth in a vain show : surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knowcth not who shall gather them. If he makes a show, it is a vain show. If he is disquieted, agitated... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pagina’s
...Thus, the Psalmist, meditating on the shortness of human life, and the certainty of death, says, " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth,...verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity ;" and again, " Man is like to vanity, his davs pass away like a shadow." In perfect harmony with this... | |
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