 | William Howitt - Country life - 1841 - 520 pages
...voice of the oppressor. The small and the great is there ; and the servant is free from his master. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery;...cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures 1 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?" Job iii. 11— 22. But this... | |
 | John Flavel - 1841 - 232 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... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there ; and the servant is 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 cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; 22 Which... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 574 pages
...smil'st, And buss thee as thy wife ! Misery's love, O, come to me ! King John, Act v. Scene 4. Job asks, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave ?" ch. iii. 20. Again, " My soul chooseth strangling and death, rather than my life. I loathe it ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
...in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. ECCLESIASTES, XI. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...in soul; which long for death, but it cometh not, — which are glad when they can find the grave ? JOE, iii. As sin hath reigned unto death, even so... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - Bible - 1844 - 646 pages
...altogether rise up to the very extreme point of such a state of deadness, they may well lament and say ; Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul. For ' life is given to those in bitterness,' when the glory of this world is bestowed upon the sad... | |
 | 1844 - 668 pages
...me the lust London Gazette — no matter where. I'll doze away, the time till dinner." CHAPTEIl XXr. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in coal ? poor friend Kisel's sudden appearance with the marauders. He had waked from his sound sleep... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery ? and life unto the bitter of soul ?" "Atala lay stretched upon a couch of sensitive plants ; her feet, head, and shoulders, were... | |
 | George Capel (B.A.) - 1845 - 488 pages
...to their last account. We have a striking example of this sinful discontent in the book of Job — " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave ?'' At this dark period of his history, darker from the light which had just before shone on it, Job... | |
 | Thomas Cooke (A.B.) - 1845 - 268 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 cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; which rejoice exceedingly, and are... | |
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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? 
