 | Yoram Dinstein - Political Science - 1989 - 378 pages
...on the misery of those "bitter in soul" to whom the light of life is given against their will: "they long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; they rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave".69 There is the... | |
 | Jackson J. Benson - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 532 pages
...pistol." Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Scribner's, 1969), pp. 45, 571. 38 "Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...than for hid treasures; which rejoice exceedingly when they can find the grave?" Job 3:20-22. 39 "Then the Lord answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and... | |
 | John Paul Scott - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1990 - 378 pages
...because of that darkness, since the little light that is left is a source of torment. As Job says, "Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul." Humanity longs for death, or any means to escape its suffering, but nothing can take away the suffering... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. (Ill, 17—18) 12 singula (III, 20-21) AWP; NAs; NAWM-1; OBVE; TrGrPo; TrJP 13 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of... | |
 | Laura Christian Ford - Education - 1994 - 308 pages
...series of catastrophes that have plagued him, Job wonders why death is denied to those who long for it: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? (3.20-22) He wishes that God would end his life: Oh that I might have my request; and that God would... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1999 - 524 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 I'M soul; 2 1 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - Fiction - 2001 - 308 pages
...the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when... | |
 | Martin Cohen - Fiction - 2003 - 354 pages
...Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and the life unto the bitter in soul; which longs for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures . . . When ! lie down, l say, when shall l arise and the night be gone? And l am full... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 pages
...component of his religious faith, to be both treasured and feared. Biathanatos: the Sidenote as Symptom Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? The Book of Job Feeling... | |
 | F. Cornelius Ogundele - Religion - 2004 - 158 pages
...the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? For my sighing corneth before... | |
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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? 
