 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.  The North British review - Side 131855Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 sider
...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom... | |
 | Ely Bates - 1804 - 422 sider
...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and be." hold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit : that which is crooked cannot be made straight^ and that which is wanting cannot be numbered*. And these evils have afforded topics to almost every eminent moralist, since his time, for much eloquent... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 sider
...[is] vanity and vexation of spirit ; ivc know little, and that little is not of much service 15 to us. [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is wanting cannot be numbered ; there are many tilinga uneasy and disagreeable in life, which all the ivit and wisdom 16 of men cannot... | |
 | 1807 - 570 sider
...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. 16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, 1 am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 sider
...such store of defects and enormities, both in nature and practice, that they cannot be numbered. I. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. In I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. | addicted myself moreover to the... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 sider
...shall be hereafter, sliuljbe so forgotten of our succeedmg posterity, as if they had never been. I. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is -gimting cannot be numbered. That, which is crooked and perverse, cannot bv any human means be rectified... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 sider
...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot he numbered. I communed with my own heart, saying, lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 sider
...other considerations render knowledge itself altogether vain to the procuring of true happiness. 15. That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. This is the cause of the vanity of knowledge, because it cannot rectify any thing in us which is amiss,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 sider
...My new habitation being so much larger than the other, my little furniture was almost lost in it: " That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered," Eccl. i. 15. However, the unerring and never-failing providence of God, which has, in uniformity with... | |
 | 1815 - 614 sider
...seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. 16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom... | |
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