| Christian life - 1837 - 250 pages
...inquiry. " Is there not a cause?" said David to his brother Eliab. Can you answer this question? for " affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground." Shall we look through the nations of the earth for the answer ? rather let us limit our views to the... | |
| William Nevins - Presbyterian Church - 1837 - 464 pages
...that they are without God in the world. Though man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward, yet affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground. The rod of affliction is held in the hand of God. Nevertheless, how many regard it not as the work... | |
| William Paley - 1837 - 504 pages
...hurt in his Body. (From Mr. Jenks.) O LORD, the only disposer of all events, thou hast taught us that "affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ;" but that the disasters which befall us are by thy appointment. Thou art just in all thou bringest... | |
| John Jebb - Christian life - 1837 - 512 pages
...our faith, they will soon bring us to the acknowledgment of this truth, that i * Heb. *it. 11. L " affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground." The crosses with which we meet, are not the effects of blind chance ; but the results of a wise and... | |
| Joel Parker - Presbyterian Church - 1837 - 22 pages
...overruling Providence, it must be manifest with respect to this, as with respect to every other evil, that "affliction, cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground." God's judgment is in the earth, that the inhabitants of the world may learn righteousness. Such the... | |
| John Pring - 1837 - 508 pages
...all their comforts ; and multiplies afflictions without end. For " although affliction (as Job says) cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; yet man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward " (Job v. 6, 7), and all through the effect of... | |
| 1837 - 680 pages
...up> and taketh it even out of the thorns, trad the robbe MvallowL'ili up their substance. 6 Although shall sprinkle the blood upon .he altar of the LORD at the door of the taberna ground1 ; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto... | |
| Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. 6 Although "affliction comcth eb. ; 7 Yet man is born unto 'trouble, as 'the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God... | |
| William Leonard Courtney - Bible - 1908 - 438 pages
...eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns, And the robber swalloweth up their substance. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. I would seek unto God, and unto God would... | |
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