...never-waking sleep ! But Job having expressed a similar idea in the former division of the sentence, exclaims: But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea man giveth up the ghost, and — where is he? These three words afford a more complete idea of the total extinction, and insignificancy...

...never-waking sleep ! But Job having expressed a similar idea in the former division of the sentence, exclaims: But man dieth, and wasteth away ; yea man giveth up the ghost, and — where is he? These three words afford a more complete idea of the total extinction, and insignificancy...

...patience beautifully expresseth in these words ; *' For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut ** dawn, that it will sprout again, and that *' the tender branch thereof will not ceaee : " though the root thereof wax old in the " «arth, and the stock thereof die in the " ground...

...brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormienda." Catullus. " Man cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? He lieth down, and he riseth not ! the heavens be no more." Job. Chooneen purwureedu&h...

...brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormienda." Catullus. " Man cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? He lieth down, and he riseth not ! the heavens be no more." Job. Chooneen purwureedush...

...beautifully ex^ press the anxiety of the mind on this subject. " If " a man die, shall he live again ? There is hope of a " tree if it be cut down, that...sprout again, " and that the tender branch thereof will notecase. " Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and " the stock thereof die in the ground...

...bounds that he cannot pass ; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and vvasteth away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, and...

...sprout again, and arise to new life under the same form. In the beautiful and poetical language of Job, "There " is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that...and that the tender branch " thereof will not cease. Though the root " thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock VOL. i» cc " thereof die in the ground...

...10. He (hall return no more to his houfc, neither {hall his place know him any more, "fob %rii. ic. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will fprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not ceafe. Job xiv. 7. But man lieth down, and...

...end of his labour is to the hireling. Ver. 7. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, tbat it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease] And after that, there is more hope of a tree than of him ; for if it be cut down to the very ground,...