 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...bad or reproachful sense. Why should 'st thou meddle to thy hurt? 2 Kings xiv. 10. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife : but every fool will be meddling. Prov. xx. 8. He that had well ycon'd his lere, Thus meddled his talk with many a teare. Spenser. A... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1832 - 330 pages
...your lusts that war in your members ? * He loveth transgression that loveth strife. * It is an honour for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling. 6 The lot causeth contention to cease, and parteth between the mighty. 7 Whereas there is among you... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. 38 It is an honour .for a man to cease from strife : but every fool will be meddling. 39 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire ; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 40 Where... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Dissenters, Religious - 1833 - 774 pages
...wrath, but a fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes. It is an honour to a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling to his own hurt. An instance of this I remember Mr. Baxter gives in his book of " Obedient Patience,"... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - Church group work - 1835 - 210 pages
...one letteth out water : therefore leave off" contention, before it be meddled with. It is an honor for a man to cease from, strife: but every fool will be meddling. Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...on proper subjects, at a proper time, in a proper measure, and with proper persons. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife : but every fool will be meddling. — xx. 3. Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go ; Lest thou... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 604 pages
...did not think themselves wiser ; he, that is wiser than they, gives them their own : It is an honour for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling ; Prov. xx. 3. So then, a quarrelsome man in a parish, especially if he have gotten a little smattering... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 610 pages
...did not think themselves wiser ; he, that is wiser than they, gives them their own : It is an honour for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling ; Prov. xx. 3. So then, a quarrelsome man in a parish, especially if he have gotten a little smattering... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...the roaring of a lion : Whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. 3 It it an honour 0 À O ̀ 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the "cold; Therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.... | |
 | William Gearing - Devotional exercises - 1838 - 188 pages
...gadding from house to house, and to play the prattlers and busy bodies. Solomon says, " It is an honour for a man to cease from strife : but every fool will be meddling," Prov. xx. 3. To be meddling with other men's business which concerns us not, is the part of a fool.... | |
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It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. 
