...composition, is 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...I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured out rivers of oil. the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The...

...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' O "@ " out rivers of oil. ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness...

...composition, is a 6ner picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other ligjit I walked through darkness ; when the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children were about...

...21) : and Job, before he, also exclaims in the anguish of his heart on account of such a casualty, " Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days...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 ! " (Job Xxix. 2,...

...months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shined upon my head, and when bv his light I walked through darkness: When the Almighty...I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured out nvers of oil. • When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness...

...can be applied with no tolerable propriety to the condition of a private man : — " O that I were as in the days when GOD preserved me, when his candle...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 I washed...

...hand, 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...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,...

...on the Remembrance of Former Prosperity. — BIBLE. 1 MOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 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...

...lamp. Bemoaning his former prosperity, the patriarch Job, in the midst of his afflictions, exclaimed, " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...and when by his light I walked through darkness," Job xxix. 2, 3. And the psalmist, under the influence of that hope which lifts us up above the world,...

...back with fond regret upon their happy state of childhood, saying with Job, " Oh that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; as I was in the day of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle, when I washed my...