 | William Mason - 1765 - 522 pagina’s
...without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. — Kom. iii. 21. " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt," Job xi. 12. Proud man would be righteous in himself, though conceived in iniquity, brought forth in... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pagina’s
...viii. 21 : " The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." Read also Job xi. 12 : " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt;" — and chap. xv. 14: " What is man, that he should be clean ? and he •which is born of a woman,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pagina’s
...him? For he knoweth vain men : he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it ? For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands- toward him; if iniquity be in thine hand,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pagina’s
...seeth wickedness also ; will he not then consider^ 12 [it,] and reckon with them for it .?'For vain man would be wise,. though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt ; an ignorant untractable crta/ifre, yet he, pretends to be wise and to arraign tht^ftfoceed1\3 ings... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 506 pagina’s
...fallen, apostate creatures as mankind are ; and serves to verify the ancient declaration, " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt."* If a philosopher should undertake to teach children of eight or ten years old, a system of philosophy,... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - 1812 - 288 pagina’s
...1 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also, will he not then consider it? 12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 462 pagina’s
...mother's womb, till the day they re' turn to the mother of all things.' (p. 40.) " Job xi. 12, ' Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt ;' in the original, though man be born (will be born in every age) the colt of a wild ass. Dr. Taylor... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pagina’s
...man is now gone ; though the candlestick is not removed, the candle is, Job. xi. 12. ' For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.' The mind is like the ostrich, whom God hath deprived of understanding. ' The understanding is darkened,... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pagina’s
...into which Job had fallen, and for which in the context, God contended with him. Alas ! " vain man " would be wise, though man be born like a wild " ass's colt !"* The essential guilt of our first parents, was their ambition to know more than was revealed, desiring... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pagina’s
...For he knoweth vain men : he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it ? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine... | |
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If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him ? For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 
