 | Arminianism - 1876
...Forty-three years of my life have passed away, — how quickly ! I scarcely seem to have begun to live. ' Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been ; ' and I already feel the shades of evening to be coming on. Lord, help me to devote my few remaining days... | |
 | Thomas Adam - Theology - 1822
...is of few days and full of trouble." So said Job, xiv. 1. So likewise said Jacob, Gen. xlvii. 9. " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been;" after enjoying as much prosperity, and as many signal blessings from the hand of God, as any we read... | |
 | Mary Anne Davis - 1822
...time, and then vanishethaway (m). Who can say, " I have made my heart clean,! am pure from my sin (n) T Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been (o). But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord; in thee is my tr ust,leave not my soul desti tute(/>).... | |
 | 1823 - 140 pages
...(4 Jas. 14.) 2. How did Jacob speak of his life to Pharoah ? The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. (47 Gn. 9.) 3. How does Moses contrast the eternity of God with man's fading life? Thou turnest man... | |
 | A. Yosy - 1823
...moment, or may still be in the melancholy retrospect of the few and evil days of my pilgrimage ; for ' few and evil have the days of the years of my life been.' Our child was now drooping quickly ; and while we watched over her, as she gradually waned to the grave,... | |
 | Owen Collins - Religion - 1999 - 1583 pages
...civil reverence that pious affection which causes him to commend the safety of the king to God. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Jacob may here seem to complain that he had lived but a little while, and that, in this short space... | |
 | Gordon Slynn Baron Slynn of Hadley - Law - 2000 - 674 pages
...are emerging in the age of globalization. ESSAI TYPOLOGIQUE 42 SONS, AND HATERS...! Joseph Weiler I "FEW AND EVIL HAVE THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF MY LIFE BEEN"] One of the defining characteristics of Scripture as literary narrative is its unflinching and brutally... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...the invisible Director of their route should appoint, however barren or thorny the spot might appear. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been,* says the aged Israel. But that life was but his pilgrimage, and he trusted in the promises. Thus were... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Literary Collections - 2002 - 205 pages
...of Human Life' '77ie days of the years of my pilgrimage arc an hundred and thiny years; few and evH have the days of the years of my life been; and have...life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage. ' [Genesis 47:9] [...] When life is past, it is all one whether it has lasted two hundred years or... | |
 | Dr. Phillip Goble - Bibles - 2002 - 1248 pages
...unto Pharaoh, The days of the shanim of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty shanah; few and bad have the days of the years of my life been, and have...attained unto the days of the years of the life of my avot in the days of their pilgrimage. | 10 | And Ya'akov made a berakhah on Pharaoh, and went out from... | |
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their... 
