 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...present. Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shalt find it after many days. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand;...not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or wJiether they both shall be alike good.* We can look but a very little way into the connexions and... | |
 | Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1838 - 412 pages
...discouragements in your labour: say not that you have objections, or that you see difficulties before you; for, " he that observeth the wind, shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." May God incline all our hearts seriously to apply to ourselves the blessings which we wish to communicate... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...fall toward the south, or toward the north, In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 against them : for thou mayesl eal of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (*for the tree 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, Nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that... | |
 | Home missionary society - 1838 - 228 pages
...reproachful conscience. — Rev. W. Marsh, at Jews' Society Auniversary. '' In the morning sow tby seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand, for thou knowest not which shall prosper," &c. "If the casting them away, was the reconciling of the world, what shall the... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1404 pages
...tlie language of the wise man: " He that obsei velh the \vind shall not sow, and he th.it rcgardeth the clouds shall not reap. — In the morning sow...seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand, for thon knowest not which shall prosper, either this or tlv.it, or w-hethrr they4)oth shall be alike good."... | |
 | Richard Eburne - Technology & Engineering - 1978 - 204 pages
...(Eccles. 11:4), if my memory fail me not. The words, I am sure, be these: "He that observeth the winds shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap," and your whole discourse makes me fear to urge you with any more objections concerning these matters,... | |
 | Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 370 pages
...similar difference in translation appears in Chapter 1 1 , verse 4. The King James translators write, "He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." In the Living Bible the passage reads, "If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done."... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree faileth, there it shall be. 4 G$ $<&=&y'_' % 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that... | |
 | John Donne - Diseases - 1987 - 260 pages
...bee 5 Nature,] Nature: 1624(2), 1626 10 Afurrfc;] Misery: i6z6 22 faith,] faith 1624(2), 1626 done. He that observeth the wind, shall not sow, and he that regardeth the Ecclw. 11.4 clouds, shall not reape; that is, he that is too dilatorie, too superstitious in these... | |
 | John Donne - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 324 pages
...consultations; and it may be a degree of sloth, to be too long in mending nets, though that must be done. "He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap";2 that is, he that is too dilatory, too superstitious in these observations, and studies but... | |
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In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this... 
