 | Jacob Cats, Robert Farlie - Emblems - 1860 - 260 pages
...blessing doth our labour bless. EC c lefi aft es IX. ii. I SAW under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 'T'HE Righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall... | |
 | Thoughts, E. M. Sewall - Bible - 1860 - 348 pages
...implying, therefore, that they are not better. But Solomon tells us also, that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." " Time and chance ;" the hour of death after the accidents of life ! We labour... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 pages
...the grave, whither thou goest. 11 ЧГ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the entered into another tent, and carried thence also,...said one to another, We do not well : this day ?'sa happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil... | |
 | Philip William Perfitt - 1861 - 436 pages
...In the ninth chapter, he says : " I returned, and saw, ' under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; ' neither yet...yet ' favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also ' knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil... | |
 | Missions - 1862 - 938 pages
...rule that a man may expect success ; for there are very marked exceptions. " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." You do not wonder that some men should fail ; for they are neither swift, nor... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - 1862 - 506 pages
...downward to the earth?" (iii. 18-21). " I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time," etc., etc. (ix. 11, 12). " Therefore I went... | |
 | James McCosh - Apologetics - 1862 - 460 pages
...the greatest, are we made to say — " I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all." While a constant and capricious miraculous interference with the plan of nature... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - Bible - 1862 - 508 pages
...downward to the earth ?" (iii. 18-21). " I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time," etc., etc. (ix. 11, 12). " Therefore I went... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pages
...much time has to do with our successes is thus solemnly told by the Preacher: " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." — Eeclesiastes ix. 11. How truthfully has Dr. Johnson said : " So little... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - Bible - 1863 - 726 pages
...is in vain." EUEIP. IM. v. 1421. 11. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. " Even the slow man, with good counsel, hath caught the swift man in the pursuit;... | |
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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 
