...ORIGINAL SIK. . PI children of men. — Thou carriest them away as with a flood : They are as a sleep : In the morning they are like grass, which groweth...groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities...

...another figure, in one of the most emphatic of the Scriptural representations as to the state of man. " In the morning, they are like grass which groweth...; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth."* — Sometimes life may appear to * Psalm xc. 5, 6. occupy extended dimensions,— yet the period will...

...past, And as a watch in the night. 5. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : 6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7. For we are consumed by thine anger, And by thy wrath are we troubled. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities...

...next evening was smitten, exactly agreeable to the representation made of man's life in Psalm xc. 6. " In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." The worm that smote the gourd, represents the cause of man's death. The gourd was killed by a worm,...

...next evening was smitten, exactly agreeable to the representation made of man's life in Psalm xc. 6. " In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and witheretli." The worm that smote the gourd, represents the cause of man's death. The gourd was...

...sayest, return, ye children of men. — Thou carries! them away as with a flood : They are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass, which groweth up: in the morning it flourished! and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed by thine...

...man, are often literally and precisely verified : " He is like the grass, in the morning it flourishes and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." 3. Death is a prevalent insuperable evil : Hence the proverbial expression, Strong as death, that subdues...

...man, are often literally and precisely verified : " He is like the grass, in the morning it flourishes and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." 3. Death is a prevalent insuperable evil : Hence the proverbial expression, Strong as death, that subdues...

...and sayest, Return ye children of men. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the evening it is cut down and withereth. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : we spend our...

...observations, made by the holy Moralist ; " Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up....up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." b This comparison of the space of human life with the time, in which herbs of the field are permitted...