 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...voice of the 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 long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; 22 Which... | |
 | 822 pages
...ready to give way to feelings of impatience and de•pondency, saying, with the suffering patriarch, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life mto the bitter in soul?" or with the inquiring prophet, "Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 620 pages
...smil'st, And buss thee as thy wife ! Misery's love, O, come to me ! King John, Act v. Scene 4. Job asks, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave ?" ch. iii. 20. Again, " My soul chooseth strangling and death, rather than my life. I loathe it ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
...rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. ECCLESIASTES, Xi. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...bitter in soul; which long for death, but it cometh not,—which are glad when they can find the grave ? JOE, iii. As sin hath reigned unto death, even... | |
 | 1844 - 668 pages
...me the lust London Gazette — no matter where. I'll doze away, the time till dinner." CHAPTEIl XXr. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in coal ? poor friend Kisel's sudden appearance with the marauders. He had waked from his sound sleep... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...He coraeth forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he fieeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery ? and life unto the bitter of soul ?" " Atala lay stretched upon a couch of sensitive plants ; her feet, head, and shoulders,... | |
 | George Capel (B.A.) - 1845 - 488 pages
...to their last account. We have a striking example of this sinful discontent in the book of Job — " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave ?'' At this dark period of his history, darker from the light which had just before shone on it, Job... | |
 | Thomas Cooke (A.B.) - 1845 - 268 pages
...; some, indeed, have so little comfort in this world, that they are ready to say with Job of old, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...life unto the bitter in soul, which long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; which rejoice exceedingly, and are... | |
 | Oswald Chambers - Religion - 1986 - 248 pages
...commit my present sufferings and future problems into Your hands. AUGUST 14 SUGGESTED READING: JOB 3 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul (Job 3:20). Job did not know the preface to his own story, and neither does any man. He was never told... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein - Political Science - 1989 - 378 pages
...on the misery of those "bitter in soul" to whom the light of life is given against their will: "they long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; they rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave". 69 There is... | |
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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? 
