 | Charles Kingsley - 1852 - 390 pages
...spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. One... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...the danger of possessing riches unsanctified by God's grace, and only used for selfish ends. " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Eccle. i. 4. " But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the which the heavens... | |
 | Church and the world - 1853 - 656 pages
...have hurled him far away from his former abode. After Solomon had thus lost the throne, he exclaims: " What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?" (Eccle. i:4.) He then goes about begging, and everywhere crying out : " I, the preacher, was once king... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...2.) It may serve to remind us of many useful hints, if we adopt the Preacher's inquiry, and ask, " What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? " Are hot all human courses vain ? Of all things, man's pursuits, generally speaking, are most unsatisfactory... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - Bible - 1853 - 596 pages
...creature was made subject unto vanity, which is understood to be in man ; and, All is vanity; what Eccles. profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under 1i2'3. 360 Man, subject to ranity, yet may live to the Truth. "' s"" ^ Doth he pray that his life may... | |
 | 1854 - 684 pages
...my soul !" There are times when the soul of every one is oppressed with the weariness of living. " What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? " Living, to most who live earnestly, is rowing a boat hard up-stream; it is full of excitement and... | |
 | John Mitchel - Exiles - 1854 - 384 pages
...very rim of Ocean. He too, the unwearied san, is chasing his own shadow round and round the world. " The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place whence he rose. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full ; — unto the place from... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Novelists, English - 1855 - 266 pages
...over his untimely end, may utter, in their hearts, the words of the wise "preacher" of old, and say, " Vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. What profit hath...man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? " * Should they stop there, they will but learn the melancholy lesson, that all the joys of earth,... | |
 | Biblical liturgy - Bible - 1855 - 268 pages
...Gen. iii. 19. Romans v. 12. Romans vi. 23. Psalm xc. 7. Job xiv. 10. 11. 12. Job xiv. 14. SBMral One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.... | |
 | Bible - 2003 - 322 pages
...Thessalonians 5:21. (Prove in the sense of "test.") VANITY 6 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but... | |
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Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 
