 I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.  Ezra to Malachi - Page 291815Full view - About this book
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...known in his children. Ecclesiastes. I returned and saw under the sun, that the ra:e is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. There was a little city, and few men within it: and there came a great king against it, and besieged... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1806 - 650 pages
...cannot command success, is a maxim confirmed explicitly by scripture. " I returned," says Solomon, " and saw under the sun that the race is not to the...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." " I have planted," says Paul, " Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...goest, there is no work to be done, no device to be contrived, no use of knowledge or wisdom. IX. 11 / returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skilt; but time and chance happeneth to them all. I saw and observed, that, here on earth, all things... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...wisdom and discretion. Our very recreations must not be sensual, but rational and industrious. IV. ^f I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Some consider this verse as the observation of another vanity under the sun, viz. That events and successes... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 280 pages
...• TIME AND CHANCE. I teturned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, — nor (he battle to the strong ; — neither yet bread to the...skill,— but time and chance happeneth to them all. E'ccl. ix. 11. SERMON IX. p. 109. THE CHARACTER OF HEROD. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...may be well laid, every assistance necessary to success may be procured ; but "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to " the strong, neither yet...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to " them all." " Money is a defence," and hence it is so anxiously desired, so universally pursued ; but how many... | |
 | William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...things, yet we many times fall short of our aims and hopes. It was the observation of the wisest man, "'I returned and saw under the sun, that the race...to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all-." Indeed such is the order of divine providence in the world, there must be different conditions... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...seen by those who have diligently observed human counsels and events, " that the race is not to the se.8 %3 Ecc. iz. 11. As all human affairs are liable to accidents and disasters, a firm persuasion, and serious... | |
 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...means, that his banished be not expelled from him. f Printed.) Hendon. Rev. Williams. Eccles. ix. 11. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeueth to them all. Islington. St. Mary. Rev. Jerome Alley. Job, xxxiv. 18,19, 20. Is it fit to... | |
 | James Porter - Bible - 1819 - 34 pages
...other object of his pursuit. He is entirely dependent upon God for success. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Ex. 9. il. A man may have a fair prospect of success in an. undertaking, and yet be disappointed, as... | |
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