 | Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva - 1833 - 390 ページ
...one of those who believed in the true God, says, in his own vindication, " If I beheld the sun while it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand," &c. Job xxxi. 26, 27. This was a solemn oath, and the ceremony performed in the following manner: The... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1833 - 406 ページ
...antiquity of whose sublime poem is undoubted, anxious of clearing himself of all imputation, declared, " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath been idolatrous Jews is that of open insurrection. Even the imputation was fatal. The Lord had announced... | |
 | Sarah Hall - 1833 - 232 ページ
...possessions to the purposes of pride or oppression — or if he had been betrayed into idolatry, when he " beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;" and ardently desires that the Almighty would appear, and permit him to plead his cause in His presence... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 ページ
...art my confidence; if I rejoiced, because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand; this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for I should have denied the God that is above."... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1845 - 640 ページ
...God.' ' You have said it, sir,' replied Lucy, and she receded farther from him as she spoke. ' " But if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand ; this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge ; for I should have denied the God that is... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1905 - 372 ページ
...for all the host of heaven . . . wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord " (II Kings xxi, 5, 6). " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed " (Job xxxi, 26, 27), and in the second commandment (Ex. xx, 4), the first forbidden image is that... | |
 | Clive Staples Lewis - 1958 - 166 ページ
...do not now easily realise. A passage from Job (not without its own wild poetry in it) may help us : "if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth kissed my hand; this also would be an iniquity" (31, 26-28). There is here no question of turning,... | |
 | Kristoffer Nyrop - 1898 - 216 ページ
...him. In the thirty-first chapter of the book of Job he praises himself for his godliness, and says: "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand." Here he is evidently alluding to the hand kiss or thrown kiss, by which the Gentiles used to greet... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 ページ
...confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 give the rain of thy seed, that thou shall sow the ground withal; and 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity... | |
 | Mungo Park, James Rennell - 2000 - 420 ページ
...asked, for 1. Chap. xxxi. ver. 26, 27, 28. [Bible, Authorized (KingJames) Version, Job 31: 26-28. "(26) If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; (27) And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: (28) This also were... | |
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If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above. 
