Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
6 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “little” →
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other , and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
