 | 1611 - 360 sider
...fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, So a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way ; A lion is in the streets. As the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 578 sider
...fpirit of devotion. The critic and the Chriftian are often diftinct: characters. Seeft thou a man wife in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a fool than of him. He who comes merely with a view to be pleafed, will think little of being profited. He who comes merely... | |
 | 1851 - 592 sider
...and there is a humiliating truth recorded fur our instruction in the word of God: 'Seest thou aman wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool th<m of him.'" We are not quite sure of our author's meaning in the following passage :— " Another... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 sider
...sport ? Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein : and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. He thatjustifieth... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 sider
...for ii>hich he formerly smarted and professed to refient of, 12 and so becomes odious to God and num. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him, that is, of one that has hardly common sense ; he is afoot IS of (tod's making, the otlie"... | |
 | 530 sider
...this error is yet to be named; it is a bar ;to spiritual improvement. " Seest thou," says Solomon, "a man wise in his own conceit ; there is more hope of a fool than of him." " Surely he scorneth the scorners, but he giveth grace uato the lowly"— the humiliating... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 sider
...There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. xxvi. 1 2. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him. Ver. 1 6. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 514 sider
...likely to get good of any in the world. Experience shews tlie truth of that, Prov. xxvi. 12....Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of To thrs some may object, that the Psalmist, when we must suppose that he was in a holy frame,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 512 sider
...Bkely to get good of any in the world. Experience shews the truth of that, Prov. xxvi. 12....Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him." To this some may object, that the Psalmist, When we must suppose that he was in a holy... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 504 sider
...he, that separates himself, will seek, and occupy himself in all wisdom: but seest thou a man thus wise in his own conceit? there is •more hope of a fool than of him : yea, he is a fool in this: In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride : I thought,... | |
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 
