 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.  The Edinburgh Review - Page 3501834Full view - About this book
 | Martin Luther - 1869 - 344 pages
...Haggai saith, " Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." These things I write unto your Grace, as I think for the last time ; for the grave is nearer me now, perhaps,... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1869 - 258 pages
...such things as ye have." 3rd. Its dangers. The Bible describes the sinful and improvident thus : " He that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." You don't do this, but the question is, are you not doing worse ? Surely it would be a far wiser thing... | |
 | Frederick Whitfield - 1870 - 366 pages
...not enough ; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees, Dawson Burns - 1870 - 536 pages
...not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. YE DRINK, BUT YE ARE NOT FILLED WITH DRINK] Hebrew, shahthu vl-ain Kshahhrah, ' ye have drunk, but... | |
 | 1870 - 518 pages
...not enough ; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. iy. Look down. p. cxlviii. Lesson III. HPHUS saith the LORD of hosts ; -^ Consider your ways. Go up... | |
 | 1920 - 264 pages
...Perhaps community in trouble made both poets feel the force of the Prophet Haggai's observation, " He that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." The most recent of Mr. Stephens's volumes of verse contains a foreword by his publishers that the book... | |
 | 1923 - 694 pages
...not enough ; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the LORD of hosts : Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring 105 wood, and build... | |
 | David Graham - 1925 - 380 pages
...have not enough; ye drink but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." Thus, in the name of God, wrote the Hebrew prophet about four-and-twenty centuries ago. It is impossible... | |
 | 1927 - 486 pages
...not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. JOSHUA. THE HIGH PRIEST, AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE OF THE SECOND TEMPLE From a drawing by Schnorr... | |
 | Adrian R. Apple - 1931 - 184 pages
...not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.' We worked for money and trusted in perishable profits which disappeared through the holes. Thus, we... | |
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