 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 páginas
...he spendeth -as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? CHAP. VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of Jl- death than the day of one's birth. 0 reputation ! dearer far than life, To its first purity and... | |
 | 1870 - 518 páginas
...life which he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the euu ? A good name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting : for that is the... | |
 | William Maclardie Bunting - 1870 - 418 páginas
...affections. Their "name is as ointment poured forth." Nay, we wonder not at the sentiment of Solomon: "A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." And again : " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are... | |
 | Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff - 1870 - 622 páginas
...and Fear of God. CHAP. VII. 1-22. 1. In contempt of the world and its foolish lasts. (V«R». 1-7.) 1 A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the 2 day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feast... | |
 | baroness Constance (de Rothschild) Flower Battersea - 1871 - 386 páginas
...and looked upon its end as a welcome release. This sentiment he expressed in many different ways : ' A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting : for that is the... | |
 | 1909 - 1078 páginas
...Columbus, Nebr. FOUR HEROES FAR AWAY. BY J. WILPORD BOOTH, PRESIDENT OP THE TURKISH MISSION. "A good n ami: is better than precious ointment and the day of death than the day of «ne's birth." "And then whate'er befalls me, I'll go where honor calls me." ''Then with my last fond... | |
 | Church missionary society - 614 páginas
...one's own health is spared, the munshee is most likely to break down. THE LATE GENERAL BECKWITH. " A GOOD name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." It is so as regards the devoted Christian whose name is introduced above. He has ceased from his labours,... | |
 | G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, Heinz-Josef Fabry - 1974 - 592 páginas
...rarely. The examples "a time to be born, and a time to die" ('et Ialedet w''et Idmut, Eccl. 3:2), and "a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death, than the day of birth" (Eccl. 7:1), are well known. Mention should also be made of Hos. 9:16, where the prophet punctuates... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing - 1983 - 488 páginas
...printed in the Record at the conclusion of my remarks. Mr. President, it is written in Ecclesiastes: A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death, than the day of birth. It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. For this is the... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 páginas
...which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? CHAPTER 7 Immer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israe 2 f It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 
