For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked 4 For there are no bands in their death : but their strength is firm. Calcutta Review - Page 931857Full view - About this book
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 562 pages
...meridian sun.] f See Ps. cvi. 4, 5. DCXXIV. PROSPERITY OF SINNERS NOT TO BE ENVIED. Ps. Ixxiii. 16, 17. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me ; until 1 went into the sanctuary of God : then understood I their end. TO unenlightened man, there are numberless... | |
| Robert Vaughan - 1832 - 450 pages
...strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain, violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...firm. .« 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness : they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1833 - 572 pages
...when he contrasted his own wretchedness with the riches and power of the Lord's enemies, exclaimed, " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me :" Ps. Ixxiii, 16. Yet, when he went "into the sanctuary of God" — when he humbled himself before... | |
| George Horne - 1833 - 438 pages
...account, is to belie their hope, renounce their faith, and strike his name out of their list. " 16. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me." A second reason why a man should not be too forward to arraign God's dispensations of injustice, is... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 418 pages
...of their brows. See this sentiment beautifully dilated, Job, xxi. See also Jer. xii. 1. 6. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. Among men who have not the love of God in their hearts, or his fear before their eyes, pride and oppression... | |
| Edward Crook - 1836 - 282 pages
...speak thus : saith be then, behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children, (verse 16.) When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me. Now it appears to me that he was ashamed and afraid to tell his people his state and condition in this... | |
| 1836 - 378 pages
...doubts and misapprchensions were removed only by his having recourse to the light of Revealed Truth : " when I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, vuiil I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end." And thus it is still. These clear... | |
| 1837 - 324 pages
...strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more than heart could wish. — 11. And they say, How... | |
| 1837 - 556 pages
...firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with The prosperity of the wicked. PSALMS. The desolation of the sanctuary fatness... | |
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