| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 448 pagina’s
...all, he deplored the absence of those consolations which he had formerly enjoyed. " Oh," cried he, " that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness !" Job xxix. 2, 3. " I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me,... | |
| Samuel Pike, Samuel Hayward - 1834 - 442 pagina’s
...Job, " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me : when his candle shone upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness !" Job xxix. 2, 3. Or, as the same holy person at another time, " Behold I go forward, but he is not... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 pagina’s
...the righteous.) Job was reverting to the time of his prosperity, as is seen in the preceding verse, " when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;" " when my children were about me, when I washed my steps with butter." The Psalmist also is speaking... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 652 pagina’s
...the righteous.) Job was reverting to the time of his prosperity, as is seen in the preceding verse, " when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; " " when my children were about me, when I washed my steps with butter." The Psalmist also is speaking... | |
| 1835 - 434 pagina’s
...with the exclamation, " O ! that it was with me as in months past, when the candle of the Lord shone upon my head, and when by 'his' light I walked through darkness; while as yet the Almighty was with me." The way to see and enjoy God is to live near him, and to be... | |
| 1836 - 932 pagina’s
...a finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' f "@ " When the Almighty was yet with me; when my children were about me: When I washed my steps with butter,... | |
| 1836 - 574 pagina’s
...Job, " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; wheel his candle seined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness j as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle." " The truth as... | |
| John Pring - 1837 - 508 pagina’s
...and Job, before he, also exclaims in the anguish of his heart on account of such a casualty, " Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when...walked through darkness ; as I was in the days of my youth, WHEN THE SECRET OF GOD WAS UPON MY TABERNACLE ! " (Job Xxix. 2, 3, 4). For the Light is not... | |
| William Warburton - 1837 - 744 pagina’s
...can be applied with no tolerable propriety to the condition of a private man : — " O that I were as in the days when GOD preserved me, when his candle...walked through darkness : As I was in the days of my youth, when the SECRET OF GOD was upon my TABERNACLE : — When I washed my steps with BETTER, and... | |
| 1837 - 852 pagina’s
...his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I -were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; 3 of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back : and the old prophet came to t ; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God ivas upon my tabernacle ; 5 When the Almighty... | |
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