 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Charities - 1841 - 440 pages
...Give a portion to seven, and also to eight ; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. " He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. " In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether... | |
 | David Everard Ford - Christians (Duties of) - 1841 - 156 pages
...moreover, will be taken, not from appearances or impressions, but from the lively oracles of God. " He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap," Eccl. xi. 4. If we wait for favourable omens, we may wait till our opportunity of improving them is... | |
 | Daniel Wheeler - Australia - 1842 - 836 pages
...love and mercy, until we are left desolate, and the day of our visitation is passed for ever away. " If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north,...place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." As death leaves us, judgment will find us ; " for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...same advice is beautifully paraphrased and amplified in the 4th and 6th verses of the same chapter. " He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." The man who scrupulously waits for the weather that seems to suit the labours of seed time or harvest... | |
 | Jacques Le Goff - History - 1986 - 446 pages
...eternal rest or eternal punishment at the moment they leave the earth, according to the words of Solomon: 'If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be' (Eccl. 11:3)."68 Probably at about the time when, as we saw earlier, Bernard of Fontcaude... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. manded you at that time all the things which ye should...through all that great and terrible wilderness, which faileth, there it shall be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds... | |
 | John Hervey Gosden - Baptists - 1993 - 180 pages
...condemnation or justification — according to the condition of the soul when dissolution took place. "If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be" (Eccl. 11. 3). "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Heb.... | |
 | Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers HARVEST He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes 11:4 HASTE Do in haste and repent at leisure. TI Haste makes waste. 155 Haste manages... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - History - 1994 - 314 pages
...this question lies a biblical text that was often cited in nineteenth-century eschatological debates: 'if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the...the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be' (Ecclesiastes 11.3). Newman, for example, refers to the text in the Essay on Development when discussing... | |
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If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth... 
