 | Bible - 1785 - 314 pages
...fome good Word of Thine, Not mighty Men that fhare the Spoil Have Joys compar'd to mine. p AR r vii. 1 LET all the Heathen Writers join To form one perfect Book, Great GOD, if once compar'd with Thine, How mean their Writings look ! 2 Not the moft perfeft Rules they gave Could fhew... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 448 pages
...mine. IX. SEvENTH FAHT. Imperfecticn of nature, and perfictun cf scripture. Ver. 96. PARAPtiHASLJU. LET all the Heathen writers join To form one perfect book, Great God! if once compar'd with thine How mean their writings look ! i.|0 2. Not the most perfect rules they gave Could... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...it; the pen of the scribes is vain. 9. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken ; Io, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them? 10. Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them.... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...might as tvell have been without it. The vise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken : lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD ; and what wisdom [is] in them ? the politicians that boast of their wisdom show egregious fatty, and suffer the consequences of their... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...LORD, Have lessons more divine ; Not earth stands firmer than thy word, Nor stars so nobly shine. 8 Let all the heathen writers join To form one perfect book : Great G.OD ! it once compar'd with thine, How mean their writings look ! 4 Not the most perfect rules they gave.... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...pen of the scribes is in vain. VIII. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken : lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD , and what wisdom is in them * - ^ How do ye, priests and scribes, say, We are wise and learned, and the law of the Lord is with... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...in the making or writing of it. VIII. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken : lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD ; and what wisdom is in them ? Those, that have made this profession of wisdom, have shamed themselves, by their unanswerable practice;... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 412 pages
...the pen of the scribes is in vain. ", ', The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD: and what wisdom is in them ? Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and D 4 their their fields to them that shall inherit... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...or the number oi his name. Jer. viii. 9. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken : lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them ? 1 III. ° GaJ. 121 Christian liberty; which is, that, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...the servants and saints of God, is sure to leave us where it finds us — both fools and blind. " Lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?" Jer. viii. 9. By the word of God preached, read, or meditated on, is wisdom conveyed to the soul; hence the word... | |
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The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them... 
