...declamation on the vanity of human existence could ever be more telling than the words of Job? — Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time...misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; hefleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. For the same reason Goethe's na'ive...

...ground, the priest and clerks sang in low, joyless tones words that seemed more fitting to the moment. Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time...misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; . . . O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. William...

...a third, that is discharge. Of the man climbing up in the Ford organization it may be said that he hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He never continueth for long on the job. A judge of national repute once said to me, " I have a great...

...hast inspected the soles of my feet, which wax old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment. For man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of wrath ; like a flower that hath bloomed, so doth he fall ; he is gone like a shadow, and continueth...

...his mother but was not tall enough to carry the gesture off with aplomb. Ben looked strangely bored. "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is lull of misery." Bob was lowered into the ground on four sturdy hessian straps. Susan, Jack and Ben...

...already been broadcast through town. A flush rises from the priest's collar as he returns to the pulpit. "'Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live,'" he says, reading from a small black book, "'and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like...

...discourse, quoting Job as if in a sermon: '"Smith! Why not General ABC? ... Why he's the man - " "Man," ... "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live."'38 The discursive deflection from the grandiose officer's truth to the biblical passage describing...

...funeral, Rev. Daniel Nash of Christ Church in Cooperstown reminded those gathered over her grave that "man hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." Then, four days later, he was standing before the Coopers once again in the village as he baptized...

...men stooped down, lowering the mattress into the grave, he began to speak again. 'Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. . . . He cometh up and is cut down ... he fleeth as it were a shadow. . . . Yet. O Lord (iod most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and...