 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
 | Josiah Edward Golding - 1860 - 440 pages
...Strange mistakes are made as to what is " good." So Solomon asks, " Who knows what is good for a man all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow ?" (Eccles. vi. 12.) The worldly parent would answer this question in a moment for his child, by accepting... | |
 | rev James Inglis - 1861 - 550 pages
...thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Ecc. 6.12. Who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? Isa. 2.22. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1860 - 504 pages
...vanity, what profit hath man ? Ver. 12. For who knoweth what is good for man in life, for the number of 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 ? Ver. 1. rm may refer either to frequency... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - Bible - 1860 - 510 pages
...vanity, what profit hath man ? Ver. 1 2. For who knoweth what is good for man in life, for the number of the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow : for who can tell a man what shall be after him under tlie sun ? Ver. 1. rrn may refer either to frequency... | |
 | Amelia Gillespie Smyth - 1861 - 502 pages
...its close poisoned by horror and remorse. So little,' as the wise king of Israel remarks, does " man know what is good for him, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow" ! MORNING TWENTY-FIFTH. LESSON. — 1 Samuel, chapter xii. MAMA. We are now arrived, my dear Mary,... | |
 | sir John Robert L. Emilius Laurie (3rd bart.) - 1880 - 430 pages
...things that increase vanity, what is man the better ? For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?' (vi. ii, 12.) Such, then, is the question before us : an old question, yet one ever new. It is the... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1880 - 918 pages
...succession of disappointments and mistakes — " For who knoweth what is good for a man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow ? " But perhaps enough has been said upon a subject which, it will be seen, is susceptible of indefinite... | |
 | 1881 - 588 pages
...what is -hail it been filled up as we determined—would, with blushes at good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he, spendeth as a shadow 1" A veiled future should check despondency.—Some, doubtless, are constitutionally disposed to indulge—almost... | |
 | George Duffield, Samuel Willoughby Duffield - Funeral service - 1883 - 182 pages
...things that increase vanity, what is man the better ? 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 ? A good name is better than precious... | |
 | Missions - 1827 - 632 pages
...on the Wednesday evening, from Eccl. 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? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sim ?" On the Wednesday succeeding his death,... | |
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