...almost every thing ; scarcely ever intimates that there is a probability that he can be mistaken; ' is wiser, in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' True piety is uniformly modest and unassuming. When ' Ephraim spake tremblingly, he exalted himself...

...Yet it is needful in some cases, to * answer a fool according to his folly,' otherwise he will be * wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' I therefore constrained myself to approach as near as I dared, to his own manner of writing. And I...

...slothful hideth his hand in his bosom ; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 16 The sluggard u wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that tiketh a dog...

...idleness, but to all the other sins, which he can conveniently practise. • The Sluggard, says Solomon, is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men, that can render a reason. From this miserable vanity, of which their deplorable mismanagement of their own affairs ought to cure...

...folly, and use every argument which bids fair to reclaim him ; but all in vain, for " the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." They point out in the plainest manner his hazard, and the risk which he runs. They warn him of the...

...depraved -by the influence of sloth, that he is even not ashamed to advocate its cause : " the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." -j- Listen again to the warning voice of Solomon ; " love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty : open...

...slothful hideth his hand in Ma bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 16 The sluggard D your God : ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness betw 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog...

...admiring ourselves, and that overweening self-conceitedness, of which the wise man saith, " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." It is a calling whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God service ; to gratify his desires, to...

...an over-weening opinion of themselves, and the unworthiest the most so ; The sluggard, says Solomon, is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason : and not finding others, of their mind, this frets and troubles them. They take the ready course to...

...such mischiefs, may not the sluggard be reasoned into another kind of behaviour ? Ver 16. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. He reckons himself wiser than all the seven wise men of Greece put together. The wisdom of Chalcol...