| 1881 - 1046 pàgines
...O that I were as in months past, as in iho days when God preserved me ; when 1 1 is candle Miini.'J upon my 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 npon my to brnmcle ; when the Almighty... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 pàgines
...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...I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out nvers of oil. ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave... | |
| William Brown - 1823 - 536 pàgines
...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,... | |
| 1823 - 408 pàgines
...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... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 pàgines
...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... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 pàgines
...wen God preserved me : When his candle shincd upon my head, and when by his b'ght I walked ttrrogh darkness : When the Almighty was yet with me; when my children were about me: XVhen I ^ed my steps with butter, and the rock poured foe out rivers of oil. ' When the ear heard me,... | |
| 1824 - 292 pàgines
...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... | |
| William Penn, George Whitehead - 1824 - 574 pàgines
...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... | |
| John Flavel - 1824 - 416 pàgines
...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,... | |
| Lady - 1824 - 452 pàgines
...vain he contrasts his fallen state with the days when the light of God shined on his tabernacle. " When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me — when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me. Because I delivered... | |
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