 Behold, Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before Thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain show : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and...  The Works of Robt: Leighton ... - Page 371by Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805Full view - About this book
 | George Bull - Sermons, English - 1844 - 660 pages
...verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for ? my hope is in Thee." To the same purpose are those Psalms of David,... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...verily every man at his best state is only a vapor. Surely every man walketh as a shadow ; surely he is disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope ? truly my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions; make... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarian churches - 1844 - 672 pages
...verily every nian at his best state is only a vapor. Surely every man walketh as a shadow ; surely he is disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope ? truly my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions; make... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - Bible - 1844 - 646 pages
...the Psalmist Ps.39,6. would not have said, Though man walketh in the image of g- God, surely he is disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. For though we ' Vanity" chosen soon leads to ' iniquity? 595 preserve the image of the Trinity in our... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1844 - 582 pages
...altogether | van . . i- | ty. C Surely every man walketh in a vain show; — they are dis- | quieted. .in | vain : £He heapeth up riches, — and knoweth not | who . . shall | gather them. lPs. xlix. 17, 19.] For when he dieth he shall • carry nothing away ; — his glory shall not de-... | |
 | George Horne - Bible - 1845 - 588 pages
...may behold it himself!" 6. Surely, every man walketh in a vain show, or, in a shadowy image : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. This world is, to the other, as a " shadow " to the substance ; nay, temporal life, health, riches,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Education - 1845 - 752 pages
...the mass of the world who have their portion in this life. Every man walketh in a vain show ; surely they are disquieted in vain ; he heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them. They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, cannot by any... | |
 | Lessons - Sunday schools - 1845 - 124 pages
...vanity ; yea, it is a sore travail." JEcc. iv. 8. " Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." Psalm xxxix. 6 . "And what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart wherein he... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pages
...man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. 2t> IT And 7 And now. Lord, what wait I for ? my hope t* in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions : make... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 pages
...so the Psalmist also reasons it : Surely every man (saith he) walketh in a vain show ; surely tliey are disquieted in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.' Men, in his account, that troubleth themselves in accumulating wealth, did but idly delude themselves,... | |
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