 | Baptists - 1834 - 680 pages
...shall be thy shield and buckler.' Psalm xci. ' O that I knew where I might find him ! I would come unto his seat; I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.' Job. xxiii. 3.... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Clergy - 1834 - 554 pages
...said, in reference to his Maker, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even unto his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." " More favoured than the saints of old," who were but imperfectly acquainted with the mediatorial scheme,... | |
 | Mary Jane Graham, Charles Bridges - Christian biography - 1834 - 470 pages
...— " My friends scorn me, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before 1 1 John i. 3. Genesis v. 24. Isaiah xxvi. 3. Gal. ii. 20. I John iii. 24. 2 Psalm Ixii. 1.2; lxxi.4.... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 326 pages
...saw Jeremiah in the dungeon, and Daniel in the lion's den. My circumstances are perplexing : — " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot behold him : on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold -him : he hideth himself also... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 428 pages
...thus expressed himself; «' O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him." Job xxiii. 3, 8. Did God his need supply, And on his servant shine ; O yes, he heard his cry In his... | |
 | W. E. Trenchard - Sermons, English - 1835 - 454 pages
...knew where I might find him," was the exclamation of Job, " that I might come even to his seat." " Behold I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him. Therefore am I troubled at his presence ; when I consider, I am afraid of him."f And again, " Where... | |
 | Joseph Thorpe Milner - 1836 - 256 pages
...continued about seven weeks in this state, often crying outwith Job, ' O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.' It was not long before I was enabled to trust in the atonement of Christ for mercy and salvation. The... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 636 pages
...mention of his righteousness." IQthly, Art thou, under the burden of much darkness, crying, with Job, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him ?" &c. Job. xxiii. 8. — Well, be comforted ; for " unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 924 pages
...most favourable issue. à. TU. AM cir. 2484. B. <J. cir. 1520. Ante I. Ol. cir. 744. Ante UCC7G7. 8 a Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...this dying world to flee, And live with heavenly things !" MRs. GILMAN. INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD. "I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him." WHERE art thou ?— THoU ! Source and Support of all That is or seen or felt ; Thyself unseen, Unfelt,... | |
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Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 
