 | John Mason Duncan - 1834 - 276 pages
...they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was POWER, but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
 | 1847 - 600 pages
...for fear of those things that are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." " Wherefore, I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive " — for they are taken away from the evil to come. The Beloved One hath been visiting His garden... | |
 | W. S. Matthews, Thomas Rawson Taylor - 1836 - 406 pages
...had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive."— ECCIES. iv. 1, 2. THERE was a happy uegro home — a happier could not be, The bright abode of health... | |
 | John Dayman - 1837 - 182 pages
...had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | William SHEPHERD (of Ilfracombe.) - 1837 - 132 pages
...wrought under the sun is grievous unto me : for all is vanity and vexation of spirit," Eccl. ii. 17. " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive," Eccl. iv. 2. His ideas of the Almighty now alarmed him; his life was a burden, and nothing but the... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 396 pages
...was power ; but they had no comforter" — when he beheld these things — " I praised," saith he, " the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea better is he, than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work, which is... | |
 | 1839 - 1060 pages
...comforter; and on the f side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. b Job a. 17, L]. c** s. 11, Q c yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1839 - 472 pages
...Christian may escape by an early removal from this region of uncertainty. The Preacher once said, " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive." It may be so now. Our departed brother is, at least, delivered from an emaciating and distressing complaint;... | |
 | John Scott - 1839 - 554 pages
...which afflict the just. The afflictions of some are so great as to induce the spectator to s,ay, " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are alive." The grave often appears a desirable refuge from the calamities of life, and excites to implore... | |
 | John Pring - 1840 - 124 pages
...they had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
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So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised... 
