The Modern Reader's Bible, Volume 1

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Richard Green Moulton
1908
 

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Page ix - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 161 - ... because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 29 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Page 57 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 44 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 61 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : Fear God, and keep his commandments ; for this is the whole duty of man : for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Page 75 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 35 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting : for that is the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 15 - To every thing there is a season, And a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born. And a time to die ; A time to plant, And a time to pluck up that which is planted...
Page 179 - We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...

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