...continueth not." We hear it in the terrible verdict of Ecclesiastes : " For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? " Lucretius overflows with it : —...

...ol the 'desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. For who knoweth what is good for man hi , for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Jer. vl, 8. Be thon Instructed, O Jerusalem,...

...fearful curse. And what we most dread, may prove a great blessing. "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow?" Let us then perform the duty of prayer, and leave the mode of its answer, entirely, to the only wise...

...there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better ? 12 For who knoweth what is good for XXI. The psalmist enlrcatflh to be resetted from hit enemies. G /fe acknoirled for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? CHAPTER VII. Sundry observations and...

...to-morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Ecc. 6.12. Who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? Isa. 2.22. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of...

...requires more wisdom than of ourselves we are furnished withal; for "who knoweth what is good for man iu this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?" Eccles. vi. 12; and ofttimes believers are never more at a loss than how to pray aright about temporal...

...Strange mistakes are made as to what is " good." So Solomon asks, " Who knows what is good for a man all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow ?" (Eccles. vi. 12.) The worldly parent would answer this question in a moment for his child, by accepting...

...vanity, what profit hath man ? Ver. 12. For who knoweth what is good for man in life, for the number of the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow: for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? Ver. 1. rm may refer either to frequency...

...vanity, what profit hath man ? Ver. 1 2. For who knoweth what is good for man in life, for the number of the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow : for who can tell a man what shall be after him under tlie sun ? Ver. 1. rrn may refer either to frequency...

...part of our temporal condition, to the wisdom of One who knows, and knows only, " what is good for man all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow." MORNING SEVENTEENTH. LESSON. — Deuteronomy, chapters iv. and v. MAMA. I know not, my dear Mary, whether,...