 | Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pagina’s
...loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; . . . and thou hast changed my wages ten times 7." 2 Gen.... | |
 | 1844 - 546 pagina’s
...Jacob was Laban's servant, and we have his own account of the character and period of his servitude. " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house." Gen. xxxi. 40, 41. Joseph was a carpenter.—Matt. xiii.... | |
 | 1860
...prey still abound, or roving tribes who live by plunder. So in Genesis mi. 40, Jacob says to Laban, " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." " That which "as torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee ; I bare the loss of it ; of my liaad didst... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1844 - 368 pagina’s
...following is the affecting record which he leaves of this period of his troubled life : " Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." " Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Except the... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1848 - 978 pagina’s
...God who gives it. If they are entrusted with the property of others, they cannot boast as Jacob did: "In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands." If entrusted with the souls of others, they... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pagina’s
...the loss of it : of my hand didst thou require it, stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; en the Levites. of Israel ; and the i-yes. 41 Thus have 1 been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters,... | |
 | Thomas Becon - 1844 - 692 pagina’s
...myself: of my hand didst thou require it, even as it that was stolen by day or night. By day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes," &c. Father. We have few Jacobs at this present day. Such diligence and faithfulness, such labours and... | |
 | Christian Gleaner - 1844 - 342 pagina’s
...notices the rigorous treatment to which he had been subject, during the period of their association ; — "in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night." This is exactly the language which a western Asiatic would now employ, whose occupation compelled him... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1845 - 168 pagina’s
...who gives it. If they are entrusted with the property of others, they cannot boast as Jacob did: " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands." If entrusted with the souls of others, they... | |
 | Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 560 pagina’s
...loss of it : of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." (Gen. xxri. 38-10.) From Ezekiel we learn, that Damascus supplied the Tyrians with wool*, and Jerome,... | |
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Thus I was ; in the day the -drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 
