 Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.  Sermons, - Page 133by Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1726 - 340 pages
...cannot behold him : He hideth himfelf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him. O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his Seat ! * But is He indeed afar off? Does he not fill Heaven and Earth with his Prefence > The Prefence of... | |
 | Missions - 1807 - 672 pages
...— "Even to-day is my complaint bitter ; my stroke is heavier than my groaning. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." It is not likely that mere... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...suffering saint, seems now to have been denied to Job : for he says, ver. 3 and 4, " Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." And ver. 8, 9, " Behold, I... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...more. From the samf. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I cominit my cause. O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! Will he plead against me with his groat power? No ; but he would put strength in me. Behold, I go... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - Christian life - 1804 - 454 pages
...after further acquaintance with him, and greater nearness to him. Job xxiii. 3...0 that ] knew wherc I might find him, that I might come even to. his seat ! — Longings after communion with him. Psalm Ixiii. 1, 2....0 God, thou art my God ; early will I... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...have reason to complain : my stroke is heavier than I 9 my groaning can express. Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat ! The name <f God is omitted to increase the paihos. If he will not come down to me, I would go up... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 386 pages
...prayer ; and that this is the reason of their crying out fre. quently, with Job, " Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat."! Ne~w to the question, what can be the occasion of this token of the divine displeasure, which to the... | |
 | Laurence Howel - Bible - 1807 - 588 pages
...fear him. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I " desire to reason with God. O that I knew where I " might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! " I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth " with arguments. Behold my desire is that... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness!" " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat, I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments!" Job xxiii. 3, 4. xxix. 2, 3.... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 426 pages
...but all in vain. They will be constrained to use the emphatic language of Job, " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat ! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there , and backward, but I cannot perceive htm -, ou the left... | |
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