...solicitude becoming the occasion of his suit, breaks forth into that beautiful effusion of Job—" Oh, that I knew " where I might find him ! that I might come even to his " seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my " mouth with arguments." And this is made peculiarly...

...despise the chastening of the Lord, he can appropriate the language of the afflicted patriarch; — "O that I knew where I might find him ; that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments :" — "Will he plead against...

...say with Job, "I go forward but he is not there, and backward but I cannot perceive him — 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come, even to his seat." In this situation how important is a faithful spiritual guide — one who knows how to speak a wordin...

...of those who have been thus led before you. Consider the remarkable language of Job : ' Oh, that 1 knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat!' that is, I wish to understand the cause : but, while ' I would fill my mouth with arguments' upon it,...

...time, nor shrunk from the effort, required in drawing nigh unto God. When he exclaimed, ' Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to his seal!' he would have gladly gone any where to find God. If ' His seat' had been on the loftiest and...

...ardently desired to draw near to God, and to have clear views of his supreme excellence. He says, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come near unto his seat ! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot find him....

...hides his face, who then can behold him? This was the affecting cause of Job's extreme depression. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand...

...to day is my complaint bitter : J my stroke is t H<*. my heavier than my groaning. *'""*' 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which...

...and JL said, 2 Even to-day is my complaint bitter : my stroke a heavier than my groaning. a 3 Oh that ~. «eat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 6 I would know the words...

...permit ourselves, in the perplexities and darkness which encompass us, to join in the exclamation — " O that " I knew where I might find him, that I might come " even unto his seat." But when the feebler light, which here permits us but to see as through a glass darkly,...