 | 1840 - 420 trang
...sixtynine years. The Divine Being from that time has gradually abridged man's existence. " The days of our years are three-score years and ten ; and if,...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for we are soon cut off and we flee away." There is not a man now living, who expects to go far beyond... | |
 | John M'Donald (teacher of English) - 1838 - 188 trang
...nothing before thee': verily every man at his best' state is altogether vanity' . xc. 10, The days of our years' are threescore years and ten'; and if by...years', yet is their strength labour' and sorrow': for it is soon cut off, and we fly away'. 2. Us Uncertainty— Prov. xxvii. I, Boast not thyself of... | |
 | William Gearing - 1838 - 188 trang
...are with God, and that he hath appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, Job xiv. 5. " The days of our years are threescore years and ten : and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away," Psa. xc. 10. And hereof you cannot well reckon the time of... | |
 | 1839 - 612 trang
...a shadow, and continueth not; brief and uncertain is his abode in the present world. " The days of our years are three-score years and ten ; and if by...four-score years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we flyaway." " It is appointed to all men once to die;" our days are... | |
 | Charles Frederick Childe - 1839 - 448 trang
...the limit ? We refer to the lively oracles of truth, and we read in the tenth verse — " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away." And though to the young and the novice this may seem to open... | |
 | William Romaine - 1839 - 418 trang
...age. IT is appointed unto all men once to die. The time is fixed by an immutable decree. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow : for it is soon out off, and we flee away. If some be permitted to live longer, yet the infirmities... | |
 | 1839 - 540 trang
...old age, about six months before his death, he remarked, that the Psalmist had said ; " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; " but, added he, with asmile, ' I have not yet found them either labour or sorrow.' Much of the freshness... | |
 | Louis Bonnet - 1839 - 336 trang
...includes the whole human race in that melancholy picture which he draws of human life: " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." But if, in the abodes of the rich, and in the gay assemblies of fashion, man, by assuming a false appearance... | |
 | 1841 - 848 trang
...and five ; and we have had the assurance and experience of what the Scripture »ays, ' The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow : for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.' Ay, ay ! that used to be a Psalm we often repeated together.... | |
 | 1841 - 112 trang
...might rest upon it. 1 Her. Mi. 36, 27. 'Cont.li,U. » »«•«• TO AN AGED RELATIVE. " The days of our years, are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." Psalm xc. 10. Dear aged one ! dost thou not feel thy strength Weakness and weariness, and sorrow now... | |
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 
