...Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou ? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred...life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 1 1 And Joseph placed his father and...

...difficulties, fears and troubles, I doubt not, but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, "Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,...

...of trouble;" and that Jacob's answer to Pharaoh, when he desired to know the patriarch's age, was, " few and evil have " the days of the years of my life been ;" and your own experience will have convinced you, that both these declarations are true. Pains of body,...

...difficulties, fears, and troubles, I doubt not, but you can readily adopt the language of the patriarch, " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Happy is it for the Christian, that he is not always to wander in this dark and inhospitable wilderness,...

...soon fail ; so that the Christian shall be obliged to say, " I loathe it : I would not live always. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. There has been so much disquiet in my family, so much trouble among my children, so many disappointments,...

...and, when he comes to make the estimate of his own life, near the close of it, what is the amount ? " Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been." Indeed, whilst he was practising deceit upon his nearest relatives in Canaan, Providence was silently...

...jxiii. 4. general sense of the patriarchs, by what Jacob says to Pharaoh. " And Jacob said to Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years i few and evil Lave the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the...

...blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, f How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, ' Lachish ; but they sent after him to Lachish, and" Israel; and Jerobo mfew and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and "have not attained unto the days of the...

...was affliction. Hence, when near the end of his earthly course, he could, in truth, tell Pharaoh, " Few and evil have the days of the years .of my life been."* While yet in the morning of life, he was obliged to secure his own safety from the sanguinary resentment...

...little moment, until the indignation be overpast. (Printed.) Chelsea. Rev. — Rush. Gen. xlvii. 9. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Chitwick. Rev. T. F, Bowerbank, MA Amos, viii. 9, 10. It shall come to pass in that day, saith the...