 | Youth's instructor - 1830
...see him grasping at what he cannot enjoy, and gathering solely for the sake of possession : for ' ' he that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase ; and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? " (Eccl. v. 10, 16.) It is also a reflection... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 180 pages
...VANITY OF RICHES ; WITH AN ADMONITION AS TO THE MODERATE ENJOYMENT OF THEM. 10 With respect to riches, he that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver ; nor he that loveth abundance of wealth with a continual increase of it. This desire of wealth [is] also vanity, incompetent to produce... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 493 pages
...do I labour, and bereave my soul of good ? This is also vanity. — Eccles. iv. 8. Prov. xxvii. 20. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase ; this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them ; and what good is there... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 493 pages
...do I labour, and bereave my soul of good ? This is also vanity. — Eccles. iv. 8. Prov. xxvii. 20. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with...silver) nor he that loveth abundance, with increase ; this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them ; and what good is there... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 1824 - 505 pages
...but augment his lust for more ; and the having of more doth not satiate, but enlarge his desires ; he " that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase," Eccl. v. 10. But these celestial riches are so much more alluring, as they are more excellent, than... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824
...gives, abundantly satisfies the soul. but the gifts that this world gives can never satisfy the soul. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver ; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase, Eccl. 5. 10. A man may as soon fill a chest with grace, or a quart vessel with virtue, as a heart with... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825
...than they. 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all : the king himself is served by the field. 10 )4 } p # : this it also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them : and what good is... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825
...may give to him that it good before God. This also ú vanity and vexation of spirit, Eccl. ii. 26. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver ; nor he that loveth abundance with increase : This it also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them : and what good ű títere... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825
...increase and enlarge as fast and no faster than their capacities and knowledge increase. Solomon says, " He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver ; nor he, that loveth abundance, with increase." Every person wishes to increase his highest interest, whether he places his interest in temporal, or... | |
 | John Samuel Thompson - Bible - 1826 - 280 pages
...first time it occurs on the right hand page. The passage was Ecclesiastes 5. 10, which reads thus: "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase." I received the verse as the voice of God, and OH reading the next verse, "when goods increase, they... | |
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