 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.  The Christian Teacher - Page 1791839Full view - About this book
 | John Owen - Bibliography - 1827 - 404 pages
...mysterious, and indiscernible to the eye of carnal wisdom. We may say of it, as Job of wisdom, — « Whence cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding, seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living?" — Destruction and Death say, we have heard of the fame thereof with our ears — " God understandeth... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 606 pages
...SERMON I. MAN CANNOT FIND OUT A RELIGION WHICH WILL RENDER HIM ACCEPTABLE TO GOD. * JOB xxvm. 20, 21. " Whence then cometh wisdom ; and where is the place...understanding ? seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living. THE meaning of the word wisdom, as it is used here and elsewhere in the Scriptures, is given to us... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 620 pages
...I*t God be true, but every man a liar — ROMANS iii. 4. ... 18 SERMON III. ON REVELATION. MTience then cometh wisdom ; and where is the place of understanding? seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living — Jos xxviii. 20, 21 39 SERMON IV. ON REVELATION. Where shall wisdom be found, and where is the place... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 568 pages
...RENDER HIM ACCEPTABLE TO GOD. SERMON I. JOB xxviii. 20, 21. V Whence then cometh wisdom ; andwhcreis the place of understanding ? seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living. THE meaning of the word, Wisdom, as it is used here, and elsewhere, in the Scriptures, is given to... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...understanding? 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22 D D 0 3 8 K K L ; ; > 2%L H@L~9 9 9 9 J C L A ApDhLTMjL L*I L B cars. 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof! 24 For he looketh to... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...sea saith, * it is not with me.' Whence then cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding ? Destruction and death say, we have heard the fame...the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof." It is to be found in that mystery, which though " hid from ages and from generations, is now made manifest... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...cometh wisdom ? And where is the place of understanding? Since it is hidden from the eyes of all the living, And kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and Death say, We have heard of its fame with our ears. God only knoweth the way to it ; He only knoweth its dwelling-place. For... | |
 | 1830 - 864 pages
...understanding í 21 Seeing u is hid from Ihe eyes of all liv ing, and kept close from the fowls of Ihe air. 2*2 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23 God understandelh the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he looketh lo the ends... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pages
...in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me, and the sea saith, It is not with me. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears"* In this bold personification of the Depth, the Sea, Destruction, and Death, there is grandeur and imagination,... | |
 | 1832 - 378 pages
...not seen; the lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. Whence then comest wisdom, and where is the place of understanding? seeing...of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air''—thus putting instinct somewhat on a footing with reason. (Jobxxviii.) "Though there is a spirit... | |
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