 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...rather than my life. I loathe it ; I would not live alway : let me alone ; for my days are vanity. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery....but it cometh not : and dig for it more than for hid treasure. My days are past, my purposes are broken off; even the thoughts of my aeart. When I looked... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...and great are there ; and tfte servant [is] free from 20 his master ; there all distinctions cease. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul ; 2 1 Which long for death exceedingly, but it [cometh] not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul ; 21 Which long for death e xceediiigly, but it [cometh] not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; who would be glad to dig thiir own graves, and be better /¡leased to find a grave than to ßnd a... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...of the oppressor. 1§ The small and great are there ; and the servant e's free from his master. . 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ; 21 Which long for death, but it comet h not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; 22 Which... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...him, that despaireth, and hath lost patience !" Ecclus. xli. 2. Wherefore is light given, saith Job, to him, that is in misery ; and life unto the bitter...exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave ; Job iii. 20, 2 1 ,- 22. How many are there, that invite the violence of death ; and, if he refuse... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there ; aiiJ the servant i .? free from his master. 20 but bitterhi sou! ; Eafihaz re/ircvetli Job. CHAP. 21 Which long for death, but it comet/i hot; and dig... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...to lose my senses; and, when my rationality a little returned, I bemoaned my hard fate, and said, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?" I often reflected on the words of my kinswoman on the mount, and saw how she... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Cook (A.B.) - Letter writing - 1812 - 232 pages
...: some, indeed, have so little comfort in this world, that they are ready to say with Job of old, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...life unto the bitter in soul; . which long for death and it rometh riot, and d^g for it more than tor hid treasures; which rejoice excei,-..inglv, and are... | |
 | James Patriot Wilson - Hebrew language - 1812 - 288 pages
...voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant in free from his master. 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul. 2 1 Which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures? 22 Which rejoice... | |
 | François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1813 - 188 pages
...called Job ; — " I am passed away like a flower ; I am withered like the herbage of the field." " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life nnto the bitter in soul?" Thus sang the venerable sire. His hollow tremulous voice, poured through... | |
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 
