 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 pages
...seal of clay, and his spirit has gone to Him who gave it. Such is man! His days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more." When the trials of years shall have palsied... | |
 | Frederic Adolphus Krummacher, John Willison Ferguson - 1841 - 224 pages
...eyes of God. In the external world, man is but a cipher : ' As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.' Psalm ciii. 15, 16. So it is with all the... | |
 | Charles Lanman - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 272 pages
...scythe, and exclaim, " Man cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone." See, how the morning zephyr is sporting with the leaves of that birch tree, and with the... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 514 pages
...evening it is cut down, and withereth." And again he says, "As for man, his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more." Solomon likewise illustrates the uncertainty... | |
 | Frank L. Riley - Religion - 1996 - 442 pages
...Pccmandres, the Shepherd of Men, Vol. II, p. 12. Mortal Man 19. "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." —PSALMS 103:15-16. "The heart is deceitful... | |
 | Billy A Melvin - Religion - 2012 - 152 pages
...For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting... | |
 | Wayne Fields - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 258 pages
...over the small cluster of believers on the shore. "As for man, his days are like grass: as a ffower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. Bless ye the Lord." Then... | |
 | John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...For he knowcth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof knoweth it no more. The opening four verses of Psalm 1 14, the Exodus... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 348 pages
...exclamations, the psalmist's spiritual reminder to all mankind—"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. / For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone"—is recast as a more specific comment on the perishability of women's social value: "For... | |
 | Gratitude - 2000 - 264 pages
...faultless but we ought to be blameless down here in this world. "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting... | |
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As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 
