| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...difpute with him j fo fhould I be delivered for ever from my judge. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there : and backward, but I cannot perceive him...he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himfelf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath... | |
| William Shaw - 1802 - 224 pages
...Apostle, " Behold I go forward, but he is not " there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive " him : on the left hand where he doth work, but " I cannot...himself on the " right hand that I cannot see him." We cannot conceive of the Deity without personification, and though the bible ascribeth to him eyes,... | |
| John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...ver. 8, 9, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him :• on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Job wanted to reason with God, one would suppose from these complaints, not being able to comprehend... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...and sorrow. / go forward, says Job, but he is not there; and backwards, but I canjiot perceive him ; on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Here were strenuous exertions, but all to no purpose. He went backward and forward, looked this way... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 386 pages
...approach him"jBehold," says he,"Igo forward, but he is not there: backward, but I cannot perceive him. On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." In this situation he exclaims, as in the text, " Oh, that I knew where•.I might find him, that I... | |
| Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 426 pages
...language of Job, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but f cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." " O that I were as in months past 1" How sudden and how melancholy the change, from the height of consolation... | |
| Robert Morehead - Sermons, English - 1810 - 264 pages
...•' Behold," says Job, " I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand where he doth 'work but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. " — They were, in fact, to;d, that it is superstition alone which seeks to embody the Deity, and... | |
| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 500 pages
...even t& his seat. Behold I go fotward, but he is net there ; and badxvard, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot...hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him f . Could any thing more pathetically express the lamentations of a People who saw the extraordinary... | |
| Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - Presbyterian Church - 1811 - 550 pages
...might find him ! Jlehold Igoforwardf but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot fierceme him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Job xxiii. 3, 8, 9. I see his perfections beaming upon me from all his works, and his providence ever-active... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...where I might find him ! I go forward, but he is not there ; apd backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." The Messiah is his all in all ; and to lose him is to lose all that is worth keeping, and all that... | |
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