 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 444 pages
...men, (' of wise men,' as St. Paul quoteth it,) that they are vanity.' ' Vain man,' saith he in Job, ' would be wise, though man be born" like a wild ass's colt;' that is, however we affect to seem wise, yet to be dull &t an ass, to be wild as a colt, is natural... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...hinder him? For he knoweth vain men : he seeth wickedness also; will he not I heri consider it ? For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt". WE are not a little grieved to see a good man, under circumstances that should have called forth nothing... | |
 | 1832 - 378 pages
...hinder him ? For he knoweth vain man ; he seeth, wickedness also, will he not then consider it ? For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." He does not tower so very high above the instinctive part of the 284 THE COMPARATIVE COINCIDENCE creation... | |
 | Charles Bridges - 1832 - 342 pages
...distinction. It is the worship of self, that worst idol, that most subtle enemy of vital religion. " Fain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt" l — is the Divine 1 Job xi. 12. O 5 and pointed illustration of the folly and littleness of this... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...Lord. 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? 23 Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 24 Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God ? 25 There is no wisdom, nor 161 counsel 26 Put them... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1834 - 372 pages
...because God hath said it. I know this is a hard doctrine to flesh and blood. For, as Job tells us, ' vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt,'* Though by nature we be never so foolish, vain, and ignorant, understanding the great mysteries of the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...hinder him ? 11 For he knowcth vain men; he seeth wickedness also? will he not then consider it ? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him ; 14 If iniquity be in thine... | |
 | William Beveridge - Lord's Supper - 1834 - 364 pages
...because God hath said it. I know this is a hard doctrine to flesh and blood. For, as Job tells us, ' vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt,'s Though by nature we be never so foolish, vain, and ignorant, understanding the great mysteries... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1834 - 618 pages
...life and of religion men greatly err, when they take upon them to carve for themselves. " Vain men ard" Hunter Hen The transition is so sudden that it seems incredible. Not many days are past since they had given the... | |
 | Thomas Bissland - Sermons, English - 1835 - 434 pages
...acquainted with subjects necessarily beyond our reach; to pry into the secret counsels of Jehovah; for " vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt;" and this is more especially the case with young converts to religion. The subject which now absorbs... | |
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For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 
