| Henry Blunt - 1837 - 368 pàgines
...requirements of an approaching eternity ; who may address his heart as Job addressed his friend, " Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the sins of my youth : " who, when he reflects upon the many known and intentional violations of the law... | |
| 1838 - 1196 pàgines
...And boldest me for thine enemy? 2,4 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ? And wilt thou pursue e u Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And ' lookest narrowly unto all my paths ; Thou settest a... | |
| 1839 - 612 pàgines
...transgressions; according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord." Thus Job : " Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." Thus in that beautiful example of penitence, given in the prophet Jeremiah : "I have surely heard Ephraim... | |
| John Newton - 1839 - 496 pàgines
...the conscience. The poor sinner hears and trembles : then the complaint of Job is understood : " Tbon writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of mv vouth," Job xiii. 20. Do you wonder that such a one can no longer take pleasure in worldlrtliings?... | |
| Matthew Henry - 1839 - 414 pàgines
...occur in a lecture delivered at this time in the neighbourhood of Broad Oak/ His text was, Job xiii. 26 ; — For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to potsess the iniquities of my youth. Considering Job as a good man, it may be noted, hat, even against... | |
| Henry George SALTER - 1840 - 584 pàgines
...(Psalm xxv. 7,) yet prays, " Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions." And Job xiii. 26, " For thou writest bitter things against me, and...makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." Old bruises may trouble us long after upon every change of weather ; and new afflictions revive the... | |
| First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 pàgines
...iniquity. David prays, Psalm xxv. 7, " Remember not the sins of my youth." Job complains, (chap. xiii. 26.) "Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." And besides the obnoxiousness of youth in general unto sin, youth has its proper sins : there are "... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pàgines
...and holdest me for thine enemy ? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things...makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths ; thou settest a print... | |
| James Buchanan - 1842 - 552 pàgines
...the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit ; the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." If conscience have power to awaken such feelings of shame, and dread, and self-condemnation, in the... | |
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