 | 1611 - 360 pages
...shall be hurt therewith ; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to dire6l. Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and a babbler is no better. The words of... | |
 | Barnaby (Uncle.) - 1799 - 374 pages
...inveterate, may be broken through, if it is but set about in the right way. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct," Eccles. x. 10. But there are innocent and rational indulgences to which persons have been long accustomed,... | |
 | 1865 - 632 pages
...now to compete with the invention of the whole world ; and as Solomon said, ' If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must ' he put to...more strength, but wisdom is profitable to direct.' It was his sense of the pecuniary value of a great inventor which led Peel to offer terms of partnership... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...hedge and fence of public authority, will find 10 he does it to his own hurt. If the iron be blunt, and he do not •whet the edge, then must he put to...more strength :* but wisdom [is] profitable to direct ; a man should exercise prudence in the common affairs of life ; especially in any attempt to mend... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...shall be hurt therewith ; and he that cleavcth wood shall be endangered thereby10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. 1 1 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and a babbler is no better. 12 The words of... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. X. 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. Strength without wit prevails not: if the axe be blunt and want an edge, there needs much force to... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...receives some of the splinters into his eye. X. 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not •whet the ed?e, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. Strength without wit prevails not : it' the axe be blunt and want an edge, there needs much force to... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...be hurt therewith ; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. 10 If the iron be blunt, Q?? 'L in profitable to direct. 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment ; and a babbler is no... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...attending this employment is mentioned Deut. xix. 5 ; 2 kings vi. 4, fi. 10. If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct. This seems to refer to the words immediately before : he that cleaveth wood, if the iron be blunt,... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1368 pages
...(From " Memorial of the Lord's Goodness." Nislet Sf Co.) A TEACHER'S MUSINGS. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength."— Ecdes. x, 10. WE are accustomed to speak of ourselves as workmen, laborers, teachers, &c. Such terms... | |
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If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. 
