 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...; no resting for |Ъв foot we find. « I have considered,« says Solomon, * all the works that are under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation...spirit.« But who believes it, till Death tells it us? It ix Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent, that they... | |
 | John Hill - 1829 - 108 pages
...not seen; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Eccles. i. 14.—I have seen all the things that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit Jerem. xv. 9.—She that hath born? "seven languisheth : she hath given up the ghost, her sun is gone... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...2. W« tr, no mum fot the foot we find. * I hare considered," says Solomon, " all the works that are under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit" But who believes it, till Death tells il и Т It is Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent... | |
 | 1830 - 1070 pages
...heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of •pi rit 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...an observer, when you notice the abundance of passages like the following (1 : 14) — " I have SEEN all the works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity." (3 : 16) — " I SAW under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there, and the place... | |
 | Laughton Osborn - 1831 - 454 pages
...knowledge to its last grain, ard drained each cup of pleasure to its dregs — exclaimed, '• I iiave seen all the works that are done under the sun : and behold, all is va uiiy and vexation of spirit." " I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Epitaphs - 1832 - 222 pages
...death : O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction! Eccles. i. 14. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Psalm xxxvii. 18. The Lord knoweth the days of the upright ; and their inheritance shall be for ever.... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...hath God given to the sons of man " to be exercised therewith" (or " to afflict them"). I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclei. i. 13, 14. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1832 - 222 pages
...death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction! Eccles.'i. 14. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Psalm xxxvii. 18. The Lord knoweth the days of the upright; and their inheritance shall be for ever.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...37. DCCCXXVIII. THE CREATURE IS VANITY AND VEXATION. Eccl. i. 14, 15. / have seen all the works which are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting, cannot be numbered. THE Book... | |
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 
