 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...ruin. Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife". Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly b. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention before... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1819 - 270 pages
...even when you are sure that you are in the right ; for they may lead another to be in the wrong. " The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water, therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with."* When the moment of anger is over, how often are we... | |
 | George Lawson - Bible - 1821 - 480 pages
...God, the king of terrors, to be sent against them, to plunge them into everlasting burnings *. Ver. 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. What a mercy is it that a fool is not always in his folly, under the irresistible impulse of domineering... | |
 | William Thomas Bree - 1821 - 414 pages
...friendship. 11. — a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.] Meaning he shall be severely punished. 14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water:] When passion is let loose, И* evil effects cannot be foreseen or checked ; it rages like a torrent... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pages
...is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. 134 fore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. The beginning of strife is as' when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with. CHAP. XIX. BETTER is the poor that walketh in his integrity,... | |
 | W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pages
...brother is a murderer. (I. Jn. 3. 15.) 10. How does Solomon caution against the beginning of strife? The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water, therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with. (17 Pr. 14.) 11. How is strife produced ? 12. To what... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pages
...brother is a murderer. (I. .In. 3. 15.) 10. How does Solomon caution against the beginning of strife? The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with. (17 Vr. 14.) 11. How is strife produced? A' wrathful... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...hundred stripes into a fool. 1 1. An evil man seeketh only rebellion : theretore a cruel messenger (k) shall be sent against him. 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his roily. 13. Whoso rewardeth (d) ol " Sacrifices," " the choicest " things." («) D. 2. " Rule over,"... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Nature in the Bible - 1824 - 474 pages
...they be chafed in their minds as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field:" The second, Prov. xvii. 12, " Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly:" and the third, Hosea, xiii. 8. " I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...said Rowland, " you could hardly follow a wiser plan. ' He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly.' ' Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly,' 46 KEEP TO THAT, AND YOU WILL DO. Prov. xvii. 12. Your resolution is a wise one; keep to that, and... | |
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The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water : therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. 
