| 1811 - 568 sidor
...almost every thing ; scarcely ever intimates that there is a probability that he can be mistaken; ' is wiser, in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' True piety is uniformly modest and unassuming. When ' Ephraim spake tremblingly, he exalted himself... | |
| 1815 - 614 sidor
...slothful hideth his hand in his bosom ; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 16 The sluggard u wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that tiketh a dog... | |
| William Barlass, Peter Wilson - 1818 - 688 sidor
...folly, and use every argument which bids fair to reclaim him ; but all in vain, for " the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." They point out in the plainest manner his hazard, and the risk which he runs. They warn him of the... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 578 sidor
...idleness, but to all the other sins, which he can conveniently practise. • The Sluggard, says Solomon, is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men, that can render a reason. From this miserable vanity, of which their deplorable mismanagement of their own affairs ought to cure... | |
| Alfred Cecil Buckland - 1819 - 226 sidor
...depraved -by the influence of sloth, that he is even not ashamed to advocate its cause : " the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." -j- Listen again to the warning voice of Solomon ; " love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty : open... | |
| 1819 - 948 sidor
...slothful hideth his hand in Ma bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1819 - 200 sidor
...ourselves, and that overweening self-conceitedness, of which the wise man saith, " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." It is a calling whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God service ; to gratify his desires, to... | |
| Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1821 - 574 sidor
...over-weening opinion of themselves, and the unworthiest the most so ; The sluggard, says Solomon, is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason : and not finding others, of their mind, this frets and troubles them. They take the ready course to... | |
| George Lawson - 1821 - 452 sidor
...mischiefs, may not the sluggard be reasoned into another kind of behaviour ? Ver 16. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. He reckons himself wiser than all the seven wise men of Greece put together. The wisdom of Chalcol... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1823 - 512 sidor
...ourselves, and that over-weening self-conceitedness, of which the Wise Man saith, Tlie sluggard is Prov. wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a 16' reason. It is a calling, whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God service ; to gratify his... | |
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