...grant him a blessing. Job had the same design in praying to God.. ' Oh! said he, that I knew where I might find him.' that I might come even to his seat! I would order my speech before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.''' And what a variety of arguments...

...who have been thus led before you. Consider the remarkable language of Job : Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even, to his seat! that is, I wish to understand the cause : but, while / would fill my mouth with arguments upon it,...

...then can Ithold him ? This was thft affecting cause of Job's extreme depression. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! Behold, 1 go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left hand...

...even then they that seek him will Be weary. This was Job's case, when he cried, " 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 : on the left...

...2 Even to-day w my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where city of God, the holy olace of the tabernacles of the ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which...

...night to flay.-* '•' • ••• ' No Peace when God it absent froM the Soul: 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat. Job xxiii. '.'>. 1 O This poor restless heart of mine. Where would it rove to-day ? • It seems to...

...hence, in all the anguish of a woundedspirit, I could scarcely forbear to exclaim, ' O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ' He seems to plead against me with his great power, I go forward, but he is not there ; backwards,...

...question is, Where may I find God? This -was Job's question and wish: Job xxiii. 3. O that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat.' And that this seat was a throne of grace to Job, is evident from ver. 6. This text tells you, God is...

...occasion of his suit, breaks forth into that beautiful effusion of Job—" 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." And this is made peculiarly...

...! The afflicted patriarch, mourning the absence of a gracious God, exclaimed, " O that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to his seat!" — Is this your cry? Then be of good courage, for the light of the Gospel shews you where and how...