...Writ ! — " I have " seen the .wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a ".green bay-tree. Yet he passed away ! and, lo! he was not: '.' yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." * Rush despises a knowledge of the learned languages for much about the same reason that an ugly old...

...great prosperity, and flourishing like a green bay-tree. But then it follows, yet he passed atvay, and lo, he was- not; yea I sought him, but he could not be found. His life, though splendid and promising for a time, was short and transient. He seemed to himself to...

.... skies. [7] I have seen the nicked in great power ; and spreading himself like a green bay-tree :. yet he passed away, and lo, he was not : yea I sought him, but he could not be found. He is so completely annihilated, that the very place where he stood was destroyed. M. Racine has translated...

...often observed, I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 3.6 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not : yea, I sought him, but he could not be found ; / have seen families -which jlourulitd by iniquity gone at once, one scarce knows how, as Saul, Mithofihel^...

...frequently said to be the end of the wicked, as in the Ixxiii. Ps. ; " then understood I theirend. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down into destruction." "Whose end is destruction." See Phil.iii. 19. 2. It is evident that some will finally ptrish, as it...

...oflen observed, I have seen the wicked: in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not : yea, I sought hinîî but he could not be found ; / have seen families which flourished by iniquity gone at on.ce,...

...this tree growing in full verdure in this place ; " I " have seen the wicked in great power, and " spreading himself like a green bay tree ; " yet he..." yea, I sought him, but he could not be " found," Psal. xxxvii. 35, 36. Nor will a reflection on their latter end yield the smallest satisfaction to...

...increase in riches. Ver. 17. I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their end. Ver. 18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down into destruction. Ps. xxxvii. 1. Job xxi. 7. Jer. xii. 1. Hab. i. 4. Luke vi. 24. Woe unto you that are rich, for ye...

...this, it was too painful for me ; until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou castedst them down into destruction." If the present were our final state, it would be impossible for us to justify the ways of God to man....

...attended with remarkabte imprcs•ioni on many of the hcarcn. The same is expressed, Psalm Ixxiii. 18 " Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou castedst them down into destruction." 2. It implies, that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected destruction. As he that walks in...