Mr. Sale and the Rev.W. Rodwell are right in translating by "striveth" and "efforts" respectively, and so is Sir W. Muir in taking it into, what he styles, the general sense of the verse (The Life of Mahomet, Vol. III, p. 32). ❋ Moulavi Ger��gh Ali (N/A)
"With the wind the going is easy, but against the wind a man striveth hard; and for that they had no paddles these men on the big canoe did not strive at all." ❋ Unknown (2010)
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Faire Ladies, it hath happened many times, that he who striveth to scorne and floute other men, and especially in occasions deserving to be respected, proveth to mocke himselfe with the selfe same matter, yea, and to his no meane danger beside. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And on these two kings warreth a mighty man of men, the King Claudas, and striveth with them for a castle, and great war is betwixt them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It is not unknown to me how Cl. Galen striveth with might and main to prove that these are not proper and particular notions proceeding intrinsically from the thing itself, but accidentally and by chance. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Then he threw himself upon the eldest born, and the prince laid down his spear and said, “A wise and prudent man striveth not with dragons.” ❋ Firdausi (2002)
Insatiably striveth your soul for treasures and jewels, because your virtue is insatiable in desiring to bestow. ❋ Unknown (2001)
To rise striveth life, and in rising to surpass itself. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Look what pitch of affection the naturall man bestowes upon his dearest darling, what unsatiable thirst the covetous worldling upon his Mammon, the ambitious upon his honour, the voluptuous upon his pleasure; the same the Christian striveth in equall, yea, (if possible) farre exceeding tearmes to convert and conferre upon God and his worship. ❋ Samuel Ward (N/A)
He also that speaks to the weakest, may make the learned understand him; when he that striveth to be high, is not only for the most part understood but of a sort, but also many times is neither understood by them nor by himself. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)
But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
_He that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things_. ❋ American Tract Society (N/A)
This only I know, that every function and several vocation striveth with other, which of them should have all the water of commodity run into her own cistern. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
In the time of St. Paul, the athletes were evidently abstemious, for he wrote "every man who striveth in the games is temperate in all things," but in Rome, at most periods of their history this class of men was notorious for grossness and brutality. ❋ James Sands Elliott (N/A)
