| Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1838 - 312 pages
...goodness? Could any but a kind and gracious Being have done this? "Ask, now, of the beasts, says Job, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air,...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee." But turn, now, from all these, and look—yes, look at one human heart. How infinite the difference!... | |
| John M'Donald (teacher of English) - 1838 - 188 pages
...GOD'. I. THAT THEKE IS A GOD PROVED FEOM CREATION AND PEOVIDENCE. 1. From Creation—Job xii. 7—10, Ask now the' beasts', and they shall teach thee';...speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee ' ; and thejiikes of the sea' shall declare unto thee ' . Who khoweth not in all these' that the hand of the... | |
| 1838 - 1196 pages
...now tbe beasts, and they shall teach thee ; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : 8 Or speak to the. earth, and it shall teach thee : And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the LORD hath wrought this ? 10 In whose hand is the... | |
| James Macaulay - Animal welfare - 1839 - 144 pages
...them : " FOR, HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER, AND HATH NOT ONE GOD CREATED us ?" — Malachi ii. 10. " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee : who knoweth not in all these that the Lord hath wrought this ? in whose hand is the breath of every... | |
| Sarah Burdett - 1839 - 98 pages
...every living thing." It is also remarkable, that the three preceding verses contain these words, " But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee; and...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?" Again : in the 36th Psalm,... | |
| John Armstrong (bp. of Grahamstown.) - 1839 - 568 pages
...his power and Godhead, and the written revelations He has vouchsafed to us in his holy word ; " But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and...thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."f Meantime the difficulties we have to encounter are among the very tests and touchstones appointed... | |
| John Goulter Dowling - 1841 - 546 pages
...understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead," says St. Paul. And Job says, " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ?" It is quite certain that... | |
| 1868 - 414 pages
...again refer to things both animate and inanimate, as being very efficient teachers. One of them says, "Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."' Another refers to the ant as a model of thrift, foresight, and good order ; and if the reader be willing... | |
| J. E. Teschemacher - Natural history - 1841 - 58 pages
...be excused here for an extract from that supremely beautiful and poetic work, the book of Job. " But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee, and...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this 1" Depend upon it, the developments... | |
| William Charles Cotton - Bee culture - 1842 - 434 pages
...writers, which make it canonical. Job, for antiquity and integrity, justly demands to be first heard : " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and...and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ?"* Deplorable indeed is... | |
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