...ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction : And sayest, " Return, ye children of men." 4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night....

...another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou...thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or a watch in the night. As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep, and fade away suddenly...

...generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world : even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou...children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night." This designation is taken towards...

...generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction, and thou sayest again, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years are in thy sight as yesterday when...

...the disposal of God; Job 14: 5, " Thou hast appointed his bounds which he cannot pass." Ps. 90: 3, " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men." Ps. 31: 15. 39: 4, 5.—These texts, however, and others of a similar nature, have been often erroneously...

...all this Job sinned not, nor " charged God foolishly" (or " attributed folly to God"). Job i. 21,22. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men. Ps. xc. 3. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man. Ps. civ. 14....

...dissolution. See, for a parallel, Psalm cii. 25, &c. with St. Paul's application, Heb. i. 10. " 3. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." Death was the penalty inflicted on man for sin. The latter part of the verse alludes to the fatal sentence,...

...forth ? — What judgment has ever so terrified the land with the similitude of the Psalmist,— " thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou carriest them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep — in the morning they are like grass...

...singular did it appear, and in what accordance with this scene, that the very next verse should be, " Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest, Return ye children of men." Standing at the Notch House, and looking upon the burial-place of the lost family, the connection of...

...generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou...children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and at a watch in the night. Thou carries! them away as with...