| William Brown - 1823 - 536 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1824 - 292 páginas
...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...about me: when I washed my steps with butter, and the rocks poured me out rivers of oil. " When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 578 páginas
...the chosen symbol of prosperity, a beautiful instance of which occurs in the complaint of Job : " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...by his light, I walked through darkness."" When the ten tribes were taken from Rehoboam, and given to his rival, Jehovah promised to reserve one tribe,... | |
| 1825 - 806 páginas
...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... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1825 - 426 páginas
...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... | |
| Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 550 páginas
...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... | |
| Bernard Barton - 1826 - 280 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1827 - 438 páginas
...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... | |
| 1828 - 318 páginas
...enjoyments of life have their full taste and relish. So Job describes hthe days of his youth; '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, &c.' 'Thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art,' if thou art... | |
| Edward Berens - 1828 - 194 páginas
...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 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 V But still let us... | |
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