...go and return unto my first husband, for then was it better with me than now." Cry out with Job, " O that I were as in months past ; as in the days when...shined upon my head, and when, by his light, I walked thiough darkness. As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle, when...

...expressed himself, when he was in his deep troubles of spirit : " O that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness h :" where it is most apparent, that Job attributes his salvation from the darkness (which stands both...

...which he had formerly enjoyed. " Oh," cried he, " that I were as in months past, as in the days w/ien God preserved me; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness! (Job xxix. 2, 3.) / am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and...

...wrfs left to mourn the loss of that sense of divine things she once enjoyed, and was ready to say, " Oh ! that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me." Job xxix. 2. The people of God now were very anxious for her, not that she might live, lor of this...

...still remain The vice and pain, — Good, and its joy, the Lord's alone. MOURNFUL RECOLLECTIONS. " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when...shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked throogh darkness." — Job.xxix. 2, 3. MOURNFUL it seems in darken'd days To turn to hours more blest...

...I let my beloved go from me ? How melancholy is my condition! O^thatl were as in months past, as'in the days when God preserved me ; — when his candle...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness. O my Saviour, bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy great name ; — that I may show forth...

...pavilidrts" May riot these serve to explain the words df Job, art Arab emir or chiefj when he says,c " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my heidd, dnd when by his light I Walked through darkness ?" For, may he not here allude to the lamps...

...knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. JOB xxix. 2 — 13. Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle ; when the Almighty...

...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. " On 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 the...

...enjoyments of life. Often no doubt in the bitterness of our souls we shall feel disposed to exclaim with Job, " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle V But still let us...