 | rev James Inglis - 1860 - 542 Seiten
...forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that il in reputation for wisdom and honour. 10. your urtherance and joy of faith ; * Phil. 2. in. I trust in the Lord Jesus to end : but wisdom is profitable to direct. Amos 5.13. The prudent shall keep silenM in that time ; for it... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 Seiten
...removeth stones shall be hurt therewith ; andhe that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. 10 : but wisdom is profitable to direct. 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler... | |
 | 1866 - 734 Seiten
...man be rowing with a rude cudgel, he must pull harder to get along than if he use a wellformed oar. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength." There may be few helpers and Bmall talents ; the feeble must pull very hard when the wind is contmry.... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1860 - 468 Seiten
...cause. It may be that some of us will have occasion to profit by the precept of the Hebrew preacher, " If the iron be blunt and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength." With the strength of firm resolve and the whetted edge of diligence, we may enter with good hopes upon... | |
 | Francis Galton - 1860 - 328 Seiten
...stops from time to time to sharpen them up. The son of Sirach says, speaking of a carpenter, — " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength ; but wisdom is profitable to direct." — Eccles. Sect. 1. — Tools and Fixtures. — A great deal... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1863 - 630 Seiten
...cleaving of wood, cuts himself with the axe, or receives some of the splinters into his eye. 10. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct."] — Strength without wit prevails not : if the axe be blunt,... | |
 | George Nicol Gordon, J. D. G. - 1863 - 320 Seiten
...listener. He was now in his twenty-eighth year, and Solomon's remark is : "If the iron be blunt and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength." One of his greatest difficulties was to master the barbarous orthography of the English language. It... | |
 | David Thomas - 1864 - 756 Seiten
..." enter into the joy of our Lord." tetter s Jfiltgtr-1|0st. THE IRON BLUNT, AND THE IRON WHETTED. " If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct." — Eccles. x. 10. (Explain the connexion.) THE text suggests... | |
 | 1864 - 380 Seiten
...and " enter into the joy of our Lord." jtmfyet a Jin0*t-|)0st THE IRON BLUNT, AND THE IRON WHETTED. "If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct." — Eccles. i. 10. (Explain the connexion.) THE text suggests... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin - 1865 - 584 Seiten
...attainment of this end ; therefore Solomom says that wisdom is profitable to direct : Eccles. x. 10, ' If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct.' Now, what are those means? To believe in Christ in the first... | |
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If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. 
