 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - 1817 - 306 ページ
...present exercises, and think if you haye not just reason to adopt the language of Job, and say, " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness !" You then could say, it was sweeter to you to converse upon the dying love of a Savaour, than your... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 ページ
...go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.' Cry out with Job, ' O that I were as in months past! as in the days when...upon my head and when by his light I walked through diirkness. As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle, when the... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 ページ
...parable, and said, 2 On that I were *as in months past, as in the davs when God preserved me; . 3 b When his || candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when c the secret of God wot upon my tabernacle ; 5 When the Almighty... | |
 | Peter Smith - 1818 - 510 ページ
...for such a deplorable fate, we may be apt to bemoan ourselves in the pathetic language of Job : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness. Whon the Almighty was yet with me, when my wife and children were about me. But now the thing which... | |
 | 1818 - 948 ページ
...depart from evil is understanding. CHAP. XXIX. IOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh _ Ɠ݁ 冑 ( Ƨ ܁ ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness ; 4 As 1 was... | |
 | Henry Fowler (dissenting minister.) - 1818 - 206 ページ
...will not cease flowing, but follow thee all the dayt of thy life. 30. THE BELIEVER UNDER A CLOUD. Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.— Job xxix. 2. , 1. JESUS, my soul's athirst for thee, Absent from thee I cannot rest; Come now, reveal... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - 1818 - 248 ページ
...than all he deplored the absence of those joyful feelings he had once possessed. " Oh," cried he, " that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; tehen his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I tealked through darkness! (Job xxix.... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 ページ
...finer picture of a charitable and goodnatured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil. ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave... | |
 | 1819 - 488 ページ
...traveller01. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor" ? Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me0. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, then it gave witness to me... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 440 ページ
...it is that makes me, in the words of my admired exclaimer, very little altered, often repeat: ' O ! that I were as in months past! as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness! As I was in the days of my childhood—when the Almighty was yet with me ; when / was in my father... | |
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OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness... 
