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" Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. "
Oriental Customs: Or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures - Page 127
by Samuel Burder - 1804
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The domestic commentary on the Old (New) Testament, by a clergyman of the ...

Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps ; as a prince would I go near unto him. 38 If my...
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The Present testimony, and original Christian witness revived, Volume 4

1853 - 488 pages
...behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, find that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto Him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto Him." What an attitude...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 pages
...them a motto from the Book of Job : " Behold my desire is, that mine adversary had written a book : surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me." Savage had most probably collected these, for Pope said he seldom read the papers. 9 Dunciad, Book...
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THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH A Commentary and ...

ADAM CLARKE, LL.D., F.A.S. - 1854 - 1004 pages
...my desire is, h that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book : 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. »i. 7.- » Exod. xxiii. 2. fCh. xxxiii. 6. с Qr,beholtt my sign is that the Almighty will answer...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd, Volume 6

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 476 pages
...has prefixed this motto from Job — " Behold, my desire is that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me." Chap. xxxi. ver. 35. These libellers being mostly anonymous, Mr. Pope to each libel wrote the name...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters, continued. 2d ...

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 504 pages
...has prefixed this motto from Job — " Behold, my desire is that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me." Chap. xxxi. ver. 35. These libellers being mostly anonymous, Mr. Pope to each libel wrote the name...
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The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence

Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 578 pages
...to the motley collection, as Warburton states, a motto from the Book of Job: " Behold, my desire is that mine adversary had written a look; surely I would...it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me." 8 He had better have thrown the whole into the fire as a holocaust to the genius of Dulness ! There...
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The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence

Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 554 pages
...the motley collection, as "Warburton states, a motto from the Book of Job : " 'Behold, my desire is that mine adversary had •written a look ; surely...take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me."s He had better have thrown the whole into the fire as a holocaust to the genius of Dulness ! There...
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The book of Job, illustr. by J. Gilbert, Volume 18

Job (the patriarch) - 1857 - 224 pages
...Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, And that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, And bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto him the number of my steps ; As a prince would I go near unto him. If my land...
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The letters of Horace Walpole, ed. by P. Cunningham, Volume 6

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1857 - 570 pages
...that I have got by it what Job wished for, when he said, " Oh, that my adversary had written a book, surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me," for the abuse is so gross and illiberal, that I think it will tend greatly to give a right issue to...
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