...is a finer picture of a charitable and goodnatured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...by his light I walked through darkness : When the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children were about me : When I washed my steps with butter, and...

...pavilion.d May not these serve to explain the words of Job, an Arab emir or chief, when he says,e " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ?" alluding to the lamps which hung around his tent in his days of prosperity, and burnt all night,...

...deficiency, and partly with despair, and partly with desire, they exclaim, " O that I were as in months pnst, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...and when by his light I walked through darkness.'" (Job xxix. 2.) Those who make these complaints, have doubtless neglected, or hastily performed, their...

...that apparition was present to his mind, when he put the following passage into the mouth of his hero. Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when hisjiery lamp shined upon my head, and when by his light / walked through darkness : as I was in the...

...a finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author: " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...when by his light I walked through darkness: when the Almighty was yet with me: when my children were about me: when I washed my steps with butter, and the...

...expressed himself, when he was in his deep troubles of spirit : << Oh that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...and when by his light I walked through darkness." Job xxix. 3. Where it is most apparent, that Job attributes his salvation from the darkness, (which...

...passages betwixt me and heaven there ; and say, with Job, chap. xxix. •• 0 that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, when by his light I walked through darkness, when the Almighty was yet with me, when I put on righteousness,...

...in the following beautiful passage : " Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spat k of his fire shall not shine." The light shall be dark...assigns this reason, " that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem." v The orientals in fitting up their houses, were by no means...

...should withdraw him¡sclf? Why should I let my behoved go from me ? How melancholy is my condition! О that i were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness. О my Saviour, bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy great name ; — that I may show...

...behold the light of his countenance ! to feel those joys that once I had, but now have lost ! O that it were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ! | Lord, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, || hide not thy face from me. " Lord, why castest...