 | 1832 - 264 pages
...the dreams of bliss that are, Not to be born is best by far ; i (') Compare Ecclesiastes iv. 2,3. — "Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead,...than the living, which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the... | |
 | James Yonge - 1832 - 594 pages
...and the weary are at rest." Hear how the wise Preacher expresses the very same miserable thoughts: "I praised th.e dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea better is he than both they, which doth not hear, which hath not seen the evil work that is done under the... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1832 - 96 pages
...and how correct is the following description of the wise man, " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1833 - 360 pages
...father by your father's father, from over the big salt lake : ' So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold...oppressors there was power — but they had no comforter.' God is witness of our old engagements — God is witness how they have been kept — and God will reward... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...shall bring him to see what shall be after him ? LESSON LXXXV. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold,...oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 3 Yea, better than both they is he which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1833 - 362 pages
...father by your father's father, from over the big salt lake: ' So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold...comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power—but they had no comforter.' God is witness of our old engagements— God is witness how they... | |
 | Lois Phillips - 1996 - 448 pages
...the living who still the life hatten; had ii. (Eccl. IV 1-3) So I returned, and considered all those oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold...already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Und der noch nicht ist, ist besser, als alle and who yet not is is better than them beide, und des... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1996 - 196 pages
...early thought declines in feelings dull decay. The author of Ecclesiastes says: Wherefore 1 (rraised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the... | |
 | Robert P. Carroll, Stephen Prickett - 1998 - 1828 pages
...be after him? CHAPTER 4 1O I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under V. / n the right side of the house, when the man went in;...the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3 Yea,... | |
 | Albert I. Baumgarten, Jan Assmann, Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa, Guy G. Stroumsa - 1998 - 468 pages
...Ecclesiastes: "It is better for men never to have been born.17 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold...more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better then they both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the... | |
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So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 
