| 1611 - 360 pages
...meddleth with strife belonging not to him, Is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, So is the...deceiveth his neighbour, And saith, Am not I in sport? Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. As... | |
| Jonathan Richardson - Biography - 1734 - 756 pages
...Thefe were in Ancient times as Now, and are well Defcrib'd by Him who fays, As a Madman who cafteth Firebrands, Arrows, and Death, So is the Man that Deceiveth his Neighbour, and faith, Am I not in Sport ? in a word, as Milton's Care in This Matter is not to be doubted, nor his... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...passeth by, and meddleth with strife belou'ging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. As a madman, who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death...deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport ? Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein : and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. Seest... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...; he gets the disfileas18 ure of both fiarties, and is nfien hurt in the quarrel. As a mad 19 [man] who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, who leadt him into siu or im* fiases ufan him, and saith. Am not I in sport ? f tretend» that he means... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...in his error, and thinks himself herein wiser than they all. XXVI. 13, 19 As a mad man who costeth firebrands, arrows, and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and suit h, Am not I in sport ? There is little difference in this case, betwixt fraud and fury : he, that... | |
| Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...hides his malice by feigning himself mad, is far more dangerous than he that is mad indeed : Ver. 19. So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport ?] So he is worse than an open enemy, who cunningly abuses his neighbour, and under a fair shew puts... | |
| Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...'deceit within hilm: He blesseth with his mouth, but curseth inwardly; speaking lies in hypocrisy. (d) As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death;...the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am 1 not in sport. Qj) A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...like one that tiketh a dog by the ears. 18 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, 19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport ? 20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out : so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 642 pages
...entreat his consideration of one uttered by a person not inferior to the author whom he quotes : " As a madman, who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man that deceiveth bis neighbour, niul saith : Am not I in sport?" (Proverbs, xxvi. 1«, 19.) And lastly, I will advise... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 600 pages
...»hall entreat his consideration of one uttered by a person not inferior to the author whom he quotes: "As a madman, who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man that decemth his neighbour, and sailli : Am not I in sport?" (Proverbs, xxvi. 18, 19.) And lastly, I will... | |
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