 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...wicked in great power ; and fpreading himfelf like a green bay-tree. Yet he pafsed away : I fought him, but he could not be found. Happy is the man that findeth wifdom. Length of days is in her right-hand ; and in her left-hand, riches and honour. Her ways are... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1801 - 594 pages
...progress and the lamentable catastrophe of Brown, without thinking on the words of Holy Writ ! — " I have " seen the .wicked in great power, and spreading...himself like a ".green bay-tree. Yet he passed away ! and, lo! he was not: '.' yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." * Rush despises a knowledge... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1803 - 472 pages
...moment before seemed, like the cedar, to raise his proud head to the . skies. [7] I have seen the nicked in great power ; and spreading himself like a green bay-tree :. yet he passed away, and lo, he was not : yea I sought him, but he could not be found. He is so completely annihilated,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 pages
...shal: see his firovidençe appearing for their destruction. 35 This, says David, I have oflen observed, I have seen the wicked: in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not : yea, I sought hinîî but he could not be... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 pages
...wicked in great power ; and fpreading himfelf like a green bay tree. Yet he paffed away : I fough: him, but he could not be found. Happy is the man that findeth wifdom. Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand, riches and honour. Her ways are... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1805 - 380 pages
...and which are many of them to be found in the writings of the psalmist ! 1 have seen the wicked in power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree ; yet he passed away, and lo, he teas not : I sought him, but he could not be found. Surely men of high degree are a lie,... | |
 | James Fisher - 1806 - 352 pages
...Psalmist, which I noticed a little before, when I saw this tree growing in full verdure in this place ; " I " have seen the wicked in great power, and " spreading himself like a green bay tree ; " yet he passed away, and lo, he was not ; " yea, I sought him, but he could not be " found,"... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...he is comforted, and tlwu art tormented; Luke xvi. 25. The wicked man prospers : but, how long ? / have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...himself like a green bay-tree : Yet, he passed away ; and, lo, he was not : I sought him ; but he could nut be found ; Ps. xxsvii. 35, 36. The wicked prosper:... | |
 | William Wake - 1810 - 418 pages
...left upon it ; but the transgressors shall perish from off the face of it."J And again he saith, " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like the cedars of Libanus. I passed by, and lo he was not ; I sought his place, but it could not be found.... | |
 | 1811 - 394 pages
...Something of him will remain on the marble; but nothing written on the fleshly table of the heart. " I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading...himself like a green bay-tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he "could not be found." But what a sensibility is produced... | |
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Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 
