 | 1819 - 948 pągines
...bed. 15 The slothful hideth his hand in Ma bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 16 en of the LORD your God : ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness betw 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog... | |
 | Alfred Cecil Buckland - 1819 - 226 pągines
...becomes so depraved -by the influence of sloth, that he is even not ashamed to advocate its cause : " the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." -j- Listen again to the warning voice of Solomon ; " love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty : open... | |
 | George Holden - 1819 - 538 pągines
...• 15 The sluggard hideth bis hand in the dish ; It wearies him to bring it to his month again. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, Than seven men that can return a discreet answer. 17 As he that taketh by the ears a dog that passeth by ; So is he that meddleth... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pągines
...productive of such mischiefs, may not the sluggard be reasoned into another kind of behaviour ? Ver 16. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. He reckons himself wiser than all the seven wise men of Greece put together. The wisdom of Chalcol... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1821 - 574 pągines
...an over-weening opinion of themselves, and the unworthiest the most so ; The sluggard, says Solomon, is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason : and not finding others, of their mind, this frets and troubles them. They take the ready course to... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1823 - 512 pągines
...ourselves, and that over-weening self-conceitedness, of which the Wise Man saith, Tlie sluggard is Prov. wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a 16' reason. It is a calling, whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God service ; to gratify his... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pągines
...down. — Eccles. x. 18. As the door turnethupon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed, &c. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason. — Prov. xxvi. 14. 16. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread : but he that followeth... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pągines
...down. — Eccles. x. 18. As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed, &c. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason. — Prov. xxvi. 14. 16. , He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread : but he that followeth... | |
 | 1824 - 828 pągines
...and that " professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." A truly wise man has observed that the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a • •• •••"/.. He also said that he had applied his own heart to know and to search, and... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 566 pągines
...idleness, but to all the other sins which he can conveniently practise. ' The sluggard,' says Solomon, ' is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.' From this miserable vanity, of which their deplorable mismanagement ol their own affairs ought to cure... | |
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The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. 
