...uncertainty of human life : " Behold he putteth no trust in his servants ; and his angels he chargeth with folly : How much less in them that dwell in houses...is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth ?"• Frail man is crushed as with a moth ; in secrecy and silence he sinks into the grave. The same...

...the frailest materials, built upon the heap of similar dwelling places, now reduced to rubbish — How much less in them that dwell, in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust !" — ( Jowett's Christian Researches, pp. 131 , 132.) — In one place, says the same intelligent...

...There was silence (deep and solemn, all around, while the spirit spake) ; and I heard a voice, saying, shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? Or, as others render it, shall mortal man (a) Job iv. 13, &c. be just before God ? shall man be pure...

...the the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence and I heard a voice, saying " Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker ?" " The force and beauty of this passage cannot be equalled in all the compass of ancient or modern...

...scripture. " Who art thou that " repliest against God ? Shall not the Judge of all " the earth do right ? Shall mortal man be more " just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than "his Maker?"1 Let us rather submit to his righteousness, and seek that relief which his gospel proposes...

...hireling a ? We are but of yesterday, and know nothing; because our days upon earth are a shadow b. We dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the mothc. Wise men also die, and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their...

...immutable purity of the Godhead — is conveyed in terms of loftiness worthy of the theme : verse 18 — "Behold he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly." So stand his words in our received version — in the past tense ; from which it would appear as if...

.../lave a building of dir/, d an house not made with hands, eternal iu </»' heaven». а How much lees in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, whwh are crushed before the moth? Job iv. 19. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,...

...judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified ;' Psal. cxliii. 2. ' Behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels...houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust?' Job iv. 18, 19. 'Fury is not in me ; who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would...

...eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall man be more pure than his Maker? Behold he put no...his servants, and his angels he charged with folly. But this was seen by Eliphaz, one of Job's friends, and they were reproved, and he justified; and they...