As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away—This image is taken from the light and fleecy clouds, which become smaller and smaller until t…

As the cloud is consumed. —It is a fine simile that man is as evanescent as a cloud; and very apt is the figure, because, whether it vanis…

Am I such an important thing, such a dangerous thing, that I ought to be watched like this, and perpetually hampered, and tethered, and kept within…

[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away
Which being dispersed by the wind, or broke up by the sun, is never se…

Plain truths concerning the shortness and vanity of human life, and the certainty of death, do us good when we think and speak of them, applying th…

The blessed Job has previously demonstrated that the comfort Eliphaz offered, which promised happiness in this earthly life, was unsuitable. He fir…