 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 628 pages
...will kill him: And roare for griefe of heart, Psal. 38 8. as David did, as Job did, 3. 20, 21, 22, &c. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that have heavie hearts P Which long for death, and if it come not, search it mor e then treasures,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1838 - 1014 pages
...voice of the oppressor. The small and the great arc there ; and the servant is free from his master. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for bid treasures ; which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?" (Job iii. 11-22.)... | |
 | Tallcut Patching - Baptism - 1822 - 472 pages
...born — " or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been ;" but " as infants that never saw light — Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in ? for my sighings cometh... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pages
...dear relation, who felt every tread of death as it came on toward him, who often cried with Job, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul ; which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;... | |
 | Ahasuerus (the Wandering Jew.), Thomas Medwin - 1823 - 146 pages
...WANDERER: A DRAMATIC LEGEND, IN SIX PARTS. BY THE AUTHOR OF SKETCHES IN HINDOOSTAN, AND OTHER POEMS. 'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than hidden treasure, who would rejoice exceedingly,... | |
 | César Henri A. Malan - 1823 - 120 pages
...But for me, I was unbelieving. Oh, my Saviour ! I murmured, I rebelled, and exclaimed in my folly, " wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the hitter in soul ?" (Job iii. 20.) " But now, my friend, my brother," said I, " your mind is calm, and... | |
 | Joseph Caryl - Bible - 1824 - 282 pages
...he amplifies in the two last verses. This is the sum and scope of this last section. " Verse 20. ' Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ?* . " The Hebrew word signifies labour. It is translated sorrow, verse 10, guilt, Ps. Iv. and mischief,... | |
 | Samuel Walter Burgess - Conduct of life - 1825 - 492 pages
...Quintus Curtius, lib. viii. cap. Q. their afflictions ! How many miserable beings are there even now, " which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for...exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave !" But awed by religion, restrained by moral principle, and alarmed for their posthumous fame, few... | |
 | Going - 1825 - 662 pages
...he opened his eyes oa the faint light of the rising sun, which forced itself through his curtains. " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ? "— He placed his hand upon his burning eyelids, as if he would have shut out light and recollection... | |
 | Consolation - 1825 - 434 pages
...with Job : " Wherefore is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul ; who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures ; who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave ?" That which... | |
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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? 
