| Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1838 - 312 pages
...goodness? Could any but a kind and gracious Being have done this? "Ask, now, of the beasts, says Job, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee; or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."... | |
| James Macaulay - Animal welfare - 1839 - 144 pages
...them : " FOR, HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER, AND HATH NOT ONE GOD CREATED us ?" — Malachi ii. 10. " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee ; or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee ; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee... | |
| John Armstrong (bp. of Grahamstown.) - 1839 - 568 pages
...his power and Godhead, and the written revelations He has vouchsafed to us in his holy word ; " But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee ; or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."f... | |
| Sarah Burdett - 1839 - 98 pages
...every living thing." It is also remarkable, that the three preceding verses contain these words, " But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air and they shall tell thee; or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee : and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.... | |
| 1868 - 414 pages
...again refer to things both animate and inanimate, as being very efficient teachers. One of them says, "Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."'... | |
| John Goulter Dowling - 1841 - 546 pages
...understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead," says St. Paul. And Job says, " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee : and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.... | |
| J. E. Teschemacher - Natural history - 1841 - 58 pages
...be excused here for an extract from that supremely beautiful and poetic work, the book of Job. " But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee, and the fowls of the air and they shall tell thee ; or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.... | |
| Abraham O. Baldwin - 1841 - 414 pages
...direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. LATHROP. Beasts and Birds Preaching to Man. Job 12: 7. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. LATH HOP. LATHROP. Universal Obligation of Religion. 2 Kings 17: 40, 41. Howbeit they did not hearken,... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : his friends scornfully. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee : and the fishes of the... | |
| William Charles Cotton - Bee culture - 1842 - 434 pages
...writers, which make it canonical. Job, for antiquity and integrity, justly demands to be first heard : " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee ; or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.... | |
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