 | William Suddards - Sermons, English - 1845 - 520 pages
...indeed apply to too many the humiliating Ianguage which David employs with reference to himself: " So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee." The report of a gun, or some circumstance of danger, will cause the oxen to pause and gaze ; they forget... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 pages
...neither doth a fool understand this : and as he doth acknowledge himself on one occasion to have been : So foolish was I, and ignorant ; I was as a beast before thec.* Others pretend to consider much, and seem very inquisitive ; yet (being misguided by vain prejudices... | |
 | George Archibald Lundie - Missionaries - 1846 - 338 pages
...members with their eyes suffused with tears. This verse struck me a good deal as suiting my case — ' So foolish was I and ignorant, I was as a beast before thee.' Since then, a proposal to the teachers, and, through them, to the chiefs and people, to make a high-road... | |
 | D. L. Carroll - Sermons - 1846 - 386 pages
...estimate of the prosperity of the ungodly. "Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins: so foolish was I and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee." He now saw how insecure was the prosperity of the wicked, and how soon it would be succeeded by a desolation... | |
 | D. L. Carroll - Sermons - 1846 - 384 pages
...estimate of the prosperity of the ungodly. "Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins: so foolish was I and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee." He now saw how insecure was the prosperity of the wicked, and how soon it would be succeeded by a desolation... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1846 - 542 pages
...end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places : thou castedst them down into destruction. — So foolish was I, and ignorant : I was as a beast before thee,§ That is, I understood not the course of thy justice, till I had considered the way in which an equal... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1846 - 590 pages
...in riches. When I thought to know this, it was too. pain fitl for me, until I understood their end ; so foolish was I and ignorant, I was as a beast before thee." Psalm Ixxiii. Thus it has been, is now, and ever shall be in this fallen state, in which the disciples... | |
 | Baptists - 1846 - 308 pages
...it be.'' I arose from my knees, and took up the Bible, when immediately these words met my eye — " So foolish was I, and ignorant, I was as a beast before thee : nevertheless, I am continually with thee : thou hast holden me by my right-hand.'' These words really... | |
 | 1847 - 244 pages
...2. At the throne of Grace 1 have no might; and I groan over my foolishness; I confess with David, " So foolish was I and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee." Ps. Ixxiii, 22. Yet in this sore bitterness, I feel a desire to be ridded of my pollution; and look back upon my path... | |
 | Charles Bridges - Bible - 1847 - 574 pages
...God, is made to see the perverseness of his own folly,. and take up the very confession of Agur— " So foolish was I, and ignorant ; I was as a beast before thee !"< The nearer our contemplation of God — the closer our communion with him — the deeper will be... | |
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Nevertheless I am continually with thee : thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 
