 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?  Sermons - Page 129by Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1822 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 472 pages
...condition may produce on his moral ch racter, and his eternal interests ; how can he know what is got for him all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as shadow ? Instead of only lamenting this ignorance, let us, in the Is place, consider how it ought to... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...to ask, and the inquiry is important, who knoweth what [is] the Chief Good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Who can say what will be the event... | |
 | James Janeway - 1824 - 262 pages
...not pray with importunity for any earthly good : for ' wko knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow ? ' But strength to bear the loss of earthly comforts, he has promised : for that I importune ; and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1824 - 356 pages
...on life. "Who knoweth," asks Solomon, in beautiful and impressive language, "what is good for a man all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow?" We are, in fact, surrounded with darkness. We are ignorant not merely of that which is remote, and... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 572 pages
...thereof shall know it no more, ciii. 15, 16. For who knoweth ¡ what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Eccl. vi. 12. The night is far spent,... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...that increase vanity, what is man the better ? 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, " So Boothrnvd. . . Ver. U. 7'»«l r»/«l»it Decile— L ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? (F) EXPOSITION. CHAP. VI. (F) The... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 480 pages
...not pray with importunity for any earthly good ; for ' who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow ?' But strength to bear the loss of earthly comforts, he has promised : for that I importune ; and... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 676 pages
...wisdom than of ourselves we are furnished withal. ' For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow?' Eccles. vi. 12. And oft-times believers are never more at a loss, than how to pray aright about temporal... | |
 | Elijah Parish - Congregational churches - 1826 - 468 pages
...' World to come, p. 63. 344 ECCLESIASTES vi, 12. For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow ? A RASH boldness of opinion is frequently the ruin of man. Unreasonable confidence that we do ' know... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...that increase vanity, what is man the better ? 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, J all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as * a ^*^k shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him ,""»i ,<//*• // under the sun? ECCLESIASTES... | |
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