 | Thomas Boston - 1852 - 210 pagina’s
...time or in eternity. Lam. iii. 49, 50. 6. Mourning under mismanagements in the trial, Job xlii. 3. " Therefore have I uttered that I understood not, things too wonderful for me, which I knew not." The proud heart dwells and expatiates on the man's sufferings in the trial, and casts out all the folds... | |
 | Alan Paton - 1953 - 295 pagina’s
...knowledge? Therefore have I uttered what I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I know not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will...and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and... | |
 | 1856 - 210 pagina’s
...darkened counsel by words without knowledge," and having to confess with shame and sorrow at the last, " Therefore have I uttered that I understood not ; Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not," yet furnishes a bright prophetic ray — more than a ray. Venturing to speak with reference to future... | |
 | E. W. Wallis, Eldred Wright Wallis, Minnie Harriet Wallis - 1968 - 314 pagina’s
...sects called Quakers and Shakers. The following words might well be employed by a modern trance medium: 'Therefore have I uttered that I understood not, things too wonderful for me, which I knew not' (xlii 3). And again, in chapter xxvi., verse 4, we find a question which indicates the belief in spirit... | |
 | Harold Schweizer - 1997 - 240 pagina’s
...from the empty tomb in silence and terror (Mark 16:8). And Job puts his hand upon his mouth, saying "therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not" (42:3). Then follows the epilogue—with distance and assurance: "And it was so . . ." (42:7). Though... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence - 1998 - 404 pagina’s
...But in Hardy there is more than the concept of Job, protesting his integrity. Job says in the end: 'Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 'I have heard of thee by hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee. 'Wherefore I abhor myself,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 pagina’s
...2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore...not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pagina’s
...said, I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore...and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee: Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and... | |
 | Milton Ridvas Konvitz - 440 pagina’s
...ways. The inquiring spirit can in the end only confess his temerity: ... I have uttered that which I understood not, things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. . . . Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:3, 6) The Elihu speeches are... | |
 | James Ellison - 2002 - 302 pagina’s
...underlying text is very difficult here. Both writers' passages correspond roughly to Job 42:3: 'Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore...not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.' 66 Quarles, p.97. This truth, by long experience learnt, apply To thy Disease; and on the cure relye.67... | |
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I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 
