 | 1806 - 224 pages
...wis-i dom also, to know whose gift she was), I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him with my whole heart."—" For there is a spirit in man, and the...than the aged, he had more understanding than his teachers, because he kept the commandments of his God." He might say with young Samuel, and perhaps... | |
 | 1806 - 662 pages
...purchase it ! You may search, not the earth only, but the ocean, amis ill thequiMion. will return," Whence cometh Wisdom ? — and Where is the place of Understanding?' It is hid from the eyes of all living, even from the most soaring minds. Death or futurity may thro* some light upon it ; bul even that will... | |
 | 1820 - 230 pages
...of wisdom also, to know whose gift ihe was,) I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him with my whole heart." — " For there is a spirit in man, and the...than the aged, he had more understanding than his teachers,because he kept the commandments of his God." He might say with young Samuel, and perhaps... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 pages
...kept hidden from the profane '. Hence, in allusion to this systematic concealment, the author asks : Whence then cometh WISDOM, and where is the place...? It is HID from the eyes of all living, and KEPT CLOSE from the fowls of the air. DESTRUCTION and DEATH say, We have heard the fame thereof with our... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 536 pages
...earth only, but the ocean, and still the question will return, Whence cometh wisdom ; and where it the place of understanding? ' It is hid from the eyes of all living, even from the most 'soaring minds. Death or futurity may throw some light upon it ; but even that'... | |
 | 1827 - 266 pages
...this distinguished eminence. " Whence then cometh Wisdom, and where is the place of understanding f It is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept from...than, the aged, he had more understanding than his teachers, because he kept the commandments of his God." He might say with young Samuel, and perhaps... | |
 | Richard Cobbold - 1850 - 272 pages
...with pure gold. Whence i 2 then cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding ? — seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept from the fowls of the air. Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding." Come, then, we have... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Henri D. Lacordaire - 1873 - 272 pages
...is happiness ? But who knows happiness ? Who has seen it ? Who can tell where it dwells? Job said, Whence then cometh wisdom, and where is the place...understanding ? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not* If this be true of wisdom, how much more true is it of happiness... | |
 | Henri-Dominique Lacordaire - 1874 - 272 pages
...is happiness ? But who knows happiness ? Who has seen it ? Who can tell where it dwells ? Job said, Whence then cometh wisdom, and where is the place...understanding ? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not* If this be true of wisdom, how much more true is it of happiness... | |
 | William Henry Green - 1874 - 396 pages
...men, and no search, however prolonged or anxious, can ever discover. Where shall wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Even the world of the departed does not possess it: they "have heard... | |
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Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears. 
