 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity laid in the balances together ! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea : Therefore my words are swallowed up. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof drinketh...  The Free-thinker - Page 3201723Full view - About this book
 | 1733 - 284 pages
...Oldeft, as well as one of the Sublimeft, Pieces of Poetry) Job, in one Place, pathetically cries out; O, that my Grief 'were thoroughly weighed, and my Calamity...Let me be weighed in an even "Balance, that God may knew mine Integrity ! In the Pfalms (which are bold and noble Compofitions in the Lyrick Kind) the... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 520 pages
...forts of afflictions : they are heavy preHures, ponderous burdens in themfelves. So Job fpeaks, " O that my grief «« were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the ba?' lances together ! For now it would be heavier than the fand " of the fea, therefore my words are... | |
 | George Lyon - Sermons, English - 1794 - 424 pages
...the deepeft deepeft diftrcfs and anguilTi of mind, he is ready to adopt the-language of Job ; " Oh, that my grief were " thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the " balances together ! For the arrows of the Almigh" ty are within me, the poifon whereof drinketh up " my fpirits : the... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 666 pages
...forts of afflictions : they are heavy preffures, ponderous burdens in thcmfelves. So Job (peaks, " O that my grief were thoroughly " weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together ! For novr " it would be heavier than the fand of the fea, therefore my words " arefwallowed up," Job... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...for themselves ; or with prhucs that had gold, who tilled their houses with silver. From the same. Oh that my' grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it wouid bo heavier than the sand of tlie sea : therefore my words are swallowed up. For the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 340 pages
...Compojttion, particularly of the Dejcriptive hind. JOB'S PATHETIC DESCRIPTION OF HIS AFFLICTED STATE. k_ that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balanc'etogether ! For now it would be heavier than the (and of the fea : therefore my words are {wallowed... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 388 pages
...might be expected, from a frail worm, under such complicated affliction : as in Chapter vi. 2. " Oh, that my. grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together ! For it would be heavier than the sand of the sea. Therefore are my words swallowed up. For the arrows... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 476 pages
...as well as one of the sublimest, pieces of poetry), Job, in one place, pathetically cries out, " O ! that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity..."Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may Icnow mine integrity !" In the Psalms (which are bold and noble compositions in the lyric kind), the... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - Hebrew language - 1812 - 288 pages
...•s/ef/jy-headed person." Schultens. " It there any taste (or wisdom) JOB VI. 1 BUT Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity .laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore tny words are swallowed up. 4 For... | |
 | John Colquhoun - Christian life - 1814 - 446 pages
...enough ; that their condition is inexpressibly miserable ; as that of Job, when he exclaimed, " Ohi that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together ! For now it would be heavier than the sand ot the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up V But such... | |
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