 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out...  The Christian Parlor Magazine - Page 3271847Full view - About this book
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...not : till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. And another dieth in the bitterness... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 386 pages
...is grass." In the book, of Job we have numerous ?.Ucstations of the like import : " For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing ; because our days upon earth are a shadow. Man, that is born of a wortu.n, is of lew Q ' days. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut dom He... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1813 - 322 pages
...thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers." 84 *' For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow." " Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart ?" Gentlemen of the... | |
 | Missions - 1826 - 638 pages
...I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers, (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?" At the Annual General... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...regarding it. Doth not their excellency which is in them go away ? They die even without wisdom. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise,... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow :) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 1 1 Can the rush... | |
 | James Hardie - Freemasonry - 1818 - 392 pages
...ajlower, and is cut down ; hefietlh also as a shadow, and continueth not" Job xiv. 1. " We are but of yesterday, and know nothing ; because our days upon earth are a shadow." Job viii. 9. " Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely, I know... | |
 | Devotional exercises - 1819 - 286 pages
...How much less is man, that is a worm, and the son -of man, who is the offspring of such a reptile. 9. We are of yesterday and know nothing : because our days upon earth are a shadow. 10. Wherefore, inquire, I pray thee, of former ages ; and prepare thyself to search of the fathers... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them and not build them up '. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing ; because our days upon earth are a shadow e. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail... | |
 | James Hardie - Freemasonry - 1819 - 364 pages
...a flower, and is cut do&n; hejleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." Job xiv. 1. " We are but of yesterday, and know nothing ; because our days upon earth are a shadow." Job viii. 9. " Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely, I know... | |
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