 | 1802 - 502 pages
...it their greateft grief. Thus, in particular circumftances, it is the language of Job : " Be" hold, I go forward, but he is " not there ; and, backward, but " I cannot perceive him ; on the i' left hand, where he doth work, " but I cannot behold him ; he •' hideth himfelf on the right "... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 280 pages
...present with us because he is concealed from us. ' O that I knew where I might find him!' says Job. ' Behold I go forward, but he is, not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on tlie left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself 011 the right hand that... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...seems now to have been denied to Job : for he says, ver. 3 and 4, " Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." And ver. 8, 9, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...present with us, because he is concealed from us. " O that I knew where I might find him ! (says Job.) Behold I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him. On the left-hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the jight-hand, that... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1805 - 380 pages
...excess of grief, he uttered these emphatical words, O that I knew where I might find God ! 1 would go even to his seat. I would order my cause before him, and, fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would anszver me, and understand what he would say unto me, chap, xiii.... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...might argue my cause, and be delivered from hit condemning sentence. But my | wishes are vain j for Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there ;] and backward, but I cannot perceive him ; though he is every lohere present, yet I cannot tee him appearing to plead for me f I am to hurried... | |
 | Laurence Howel - Bible - 1807 - 588 pages
...would speak to the Almighty, and I " desire to reason with God. O that I knew where I " might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! " I would...before him, and fill my mouth " with arguments. Behold my desire is that the Almighty 11 would answer me."} Elihu justly reproves Job for thus justifying... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 388 pages
...access to God, and the throne of grace. Again, as in the text, "Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." The idea is, that he would plead before God with a holy, submissive boldness ; not his own merit, fer,... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 386 pages
...language is N ** . :. with Job, " Oh, that I knew where I might find him*, that I might come, even unto his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with ai%|» merits." They desire not to be freed from their obligations, to attend constantly upon the public... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...frame. Holy Job knew what this was by experience, when he said, " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat ; I would order my cause before him, I would fill my mouth with arguments." David complains of this desertion, and prays that " God may... | |
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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. 
