 | William Mason - Devotional calendars - 1765 - 522 pages
...God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. — Kom. iii. 21. " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt," Job xi. 12. Proud man would be righteous in himself, though conceived in iniquity, brought forth in... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...Gen. viii. 21 : " The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." Read also Job xi. 12 : " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt;" — and chap. xv. 14: " What is man, that he should be clean ? and he •which is born of a woman,... | |
 | William Mason - Calendars - 1803 - 400 pages
...of God without the law, is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets — Rom. iii. 21. "VAIN man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass' colt.".... Job xi. 12. Proud man would be righteous, though conceived in iniquity, brought forth^... | |
 | William Mason - Calendars - 1803 - 402 pages
...God without the law, is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.... Horn. iii. 21. " VAIN man would be wise, though man be born like a wild &ss' colt.".. ..Job xi. 12. Proud man wonld be righteous, though conceived in iniquity, brought forth... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...hinder him? For he knoweth vain men : he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it ? For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands- toward him; if iniquity be in thine hand,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...men ; he seeth wickedness also ; will he not then consider 12 [it,] and reckon with them for it ? For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt ; an ignorant untractable creature, yet he frretcnds to be wise and to arraign theftroceed13 ings of... | |
 | Books - 1806 - 924 pages
...is no endowment, of which we are more disposed to be proud. So just is the observation of Zophar, ' Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's coll.' The- description is instructive, but very mortifying. Ileaspires after knowledge which was never... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...among such fallen, apostate creatures as mankind are ; and serves to verify the ancient declaration, " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt."* If a philosopher should undertake to teach children of eight or ten years old, a system of philosophy,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...their mother's womb, till the day they re' turn to the mother of all things.' (p. 40.) " Job xi. 12, ' Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt ;' in the original, though man be born (will be born in every age) the colt of a wild ass. Dr. Taylor... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...soul of man is now gone ; though the candlestick is not removed, the candle is, Job. xi. 12. ' For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.' The mind is like the ostrich, whom God hath deprived of understanding. ' The understanding is darkened,... | |
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For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 
