 Wherefore I praised 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 sun.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 210edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...both they is he which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. ^f4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.... | |
 | John Mason Duncan - 1834 - 276 pages
...were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was POWER, but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead...dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under... | |
 | 1847 - 600 pages
...for fear of those things that are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." " Wherefore, I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive " — for they are taken away from the evil to come. The Beloved One hath been visiting His garden... | |
 | W. S. Matthews, Thomas Rawson Taylor - 1836 - 406 pages
...were oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead...dead, more than the living which are yet alive."— ECCIES. iv. 1, 2. THERE was a happy uegro home — a happier could not be, The bright abode of health... | |
 | William SHEPHERD (of Ilfracombe.) - 1837 - 132 pages
...wrought under the sun is grievous unto me : for all is vanity and vexation of spirit," Eccl. ii. 17. " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive," Eccl. iv. 2. His ideas of the Almighty now alarmed him; his life was a burden, and nothing but the... | |
 | John Dayman - 1837 - 182 pages
...no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 396 pages
...was power ; but they had no comforter" — when he beheld these things — " I praised," saith he, " 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, which is done... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the 4s:de of their oppressors there vas power; but they had 2 3 than the living which are yet alive. Yea, botter w lie than both they, which hath not yet been, who... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1839 - 472 pages
...Christian may escape by an early removal from this region of uncertainty. The Preacher once said, " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive." It may be so now. Our departed brother is, at least, delivered from an emaciating and distressing complaint;... | |
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