...our days upon earth are a shadow. Man, that is born of a womr.n, is of few Q days. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down. He fleeth also as a shadow* and continueth not. I said to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. One dicth...

...than of art : " Man that is born of a " woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a " flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and con" tinueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its...

...of art : " Man that is born of a woman " is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh " forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continuetli not. ' Virgil himself would not versify the following passage, for fear of hurting its...

...vale of tears. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Seeing -his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds...

...He cometh foitli like a flower, and is cut down : he fleetli also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 e. 13 1F And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, t ? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean ? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the...

...declining state. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? " he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord in mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life...

...state. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? ': he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord in mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life...

...declining State. What is man, but the creature of an hour, as a bubble upon the water? " he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." May the Lord 1n mercy, from whom only are the deliverances from death, prolong yet a little, a life...

...beanty, but we resemble it likewis* in the shortuess of our days: for " Man, that U born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and i» cut down." Let us so live, that when that time conies, good people may regret us, and weep over...

...its present length. Yet in what diminutive terms he speaks of it. " Man that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble ; he cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not." What similitudes shall we find to\ represent its shortness now ?...