 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1837 - 624 pages
...kill him : And roare for grief e of heart, Psal. 38. 8. as David did, as Job did, 3. 20, 21, 22, &c. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that have heavie hearts ? Which long for death, and if it come not, search it more then treasures,... | |
 | Christian life - 1837 - 428 pages
...distress of his soul is worse than the other, which will make him cry out, " wherefore is light given unto him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul." Job iii. 20. Step. God has blest you, my brother, with a rich experience of his loving-kindness and... | |
 | Thomas Laurie (minister of Newburn.) - 1837 - 420 pages
...anguish of mind, which he cares not to reveal, he is prompted to utter this pathetic lamentation : " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul ?" Alas ! in the season of adversity, life is often embittered by a sad defection... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1888 - 412 pages
...voice of the oppressor. The small and the great is 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?" Job iii. 11— 22. But this new alliance with nature ; this new and spiritual beauty cast upon everything,... | |
 | William Howitt - England - 1838 - 860 pages
...voice of the oppressor. The small and the great is 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?" Job iii. 11—2'2. But this new alliance with nature; this new and spiritual beauty cast upon everything,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1838 - 572 pages
...him that despaireth, and hath lost all patience. Ecclus. xli. 2. Wherefore is light given, saith Job, to him that is in misery; and life unto the bitter...exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave. Job iii. 20—22. How many are there that invite the violence of death; and if he refuse it, do as... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...voice ofthe 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 in soul ; 21 Which 2long for death, but it comet h not ; And dig for it moru than for hid treasures ; 22 Which... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Middle East - 1838 - 282 pages
...the earth ; and this would appear from the following passage in Job, where the wretched are said to " long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures." We find, too, the mention of splendid tombs, which are generally found only among the luxuries of an... | |
 | William Marshall - Anthems - 1840 - 284 pages
...for me, 0 LORD my GOD. JOB iii. 20. 0 wherefore is light given to him that is in misery ? or life to the bitter in soul, which long for death, but it cometh not, and rejoice exceedingly when they can find the grave ? 24. For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings... | |
 | John Flavel - 1841 - 232 pages
...dear relation, who felt every tread of death as it came on toward him, who often cried with Job, " "Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul ; which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures... | |
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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? 
