 | Daniel Bellamy - 1789 - 512 pàgines
...hear the doleful echo of COME OUT TO WORK." SCOTT. VERSE XX. XXL XXII. WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY, AND LIFE UNTO THE BITTER IN SOUL ? WHICH LONG FOR DEATH, BUT IT COMETH NOT, AND DIG FOR IT MORE THAN FOR HID TREASURES ? WHICH REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY, AND ARE... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pàgines
...it ; I would not live alway : let me alone ; for my days are vanity. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery. and life unto the bitter in soul ; which long for death but it cometh not : and dig for it more than for hid treasure. My days are past, my purposes are broken... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pàgines
...him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul ; 2 1 Which long for death exceedingly, but it [cometh] not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; who would be glad to dig their • own graves, and be better pleased to find a grave than to find... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pàgines
...despaireth, and hath lost patience !" Ecclus. xli. 2. Wherefore is light given, saith Job, to him, that is in misery ; and life unto the bitter in soul ? Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures : Which rejoice exceedingly, and are... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Cook (A.B.) - 1812 - 232 pàgines
...comfort in this world, that they are ready to say with Job of old, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; . which long for death and it rometh riot, and d^g for it more than tor hid treasures; which rejoice excei,-..inglv, and are glad... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - 1812 - 288 pàgines
...light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul. 2 1 Which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures? 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a... | |
 | James Reid - 1815 - 456 pàgines
...account of God's afflicting providence. He took up Job's complaint, Wherefore is light given to him who is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ; which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; a See Doddridge on the place. b Doddridge,... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pàgines
...light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave ? 23 Why is light given... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pàgines
...and the great arc there ; and the servant is free from his master. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ; which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for bid treasures ; which rejoice exceedingly, and are... | |
 | Joseph Caryl - 1824 - 282 pàgines
...separated, but the very possession of spiritual things is joy. " Verse 21. ' Which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures." " To long is a vehement desire, even as an hungry man for food, or as a believer who has waited long... | |
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul, Which long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave? 
