 | James Gough - Quakers - 1837 - 362 pages
...true believer's faith is more precious than gold. The• excellent sayings of Job came into my mind, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on i the left Land, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right liand,... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words tchich he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will... | |
 | Samuel Hobson - 1840
...you are perhaps ready to answer in the language of despondency : " Oh 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 V Behold, then, He is nigh you — " He is about your bed, and around your path, and spieth out all... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 568 pages
...coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (5) Matt. vi. 13. (6) Job xxiii. 3, 4. 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. Je'r. xiv. 20,21. worthiness in ourselves, or in any other crca ture, but from God : (1) and with our... | |
 | Nicholas Rescher - Philosophy - 1990 - 224 pages
...As Job proclaims, "Oh 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." In the book of Psalms the stress is often not on what we know or believe of God, but on seeking, hoping,... | |
 | Robert Adamson, Thoemmes Press - Philosophy - 1993 - 406 pages
...humility from the study of that nature's laws and limits, shall confess with the Patriarch of old, — " Behold, I go forward, but He is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive Him : on tho left hand, where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him : He hidcth Himself on the right hand, that... | |
 | John W. Carlton - Religion - 1993 - 140 pages
...the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee, but not until he had looked into the great abyss: Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward but I cannot perceive him. —Job 42:5 and 23:8 There is a New Testament scene that has always spoken profoundly to me. John the... | |
 | Amos Funkenstein - Religion - 2023 - 420 pages
...happen later — a confrontation with God in which Job was silenced. Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause [mishpat] before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. (Job 23: 3-4)' In short: Job is not seeking... | |
 | Alicia Ostriker - Bibles - 1994 - 284 pages
...absence. He demands law and justice instead of accident and chaos.* Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. * Impossible not to quote Buber on the Book of Job. "Instead of his God, for whom he looks in vain,... | |
 | Kelly James Clark - Religion - 1997 - 292 pages
...As Job proclaims, "Oh 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." In the book of Psalms, the stress is often not on what we know or believe of God, but on seeking, hoping,... | |
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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. 
