| Robert South - Apologetics - 1823 - 568 pages
...discharge from their being ? Job speaks the natural desire of a tormented sinner; Job vi. 8, 9, Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me...for! even that it would please God to destroy me! And thus we see how sin takes off the creature from its dependence upon God: first, in the commission... | |
| John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day, &c. — See at large, Job iii. 1, &c. O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me...me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off, &c. So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death, rather than life, &c. He confesseth thus : I have... | |
| John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day, &C. — See at large, Job iii. 1, &c. O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for, even that it would pleaae God to destroy me, that ; [CU A P. XI. he would let loose his hand and cut me off, &c. So that... | |
| Joseph Caryl - Bible - 1824 - 282 pages
...Christ uttered strong cries to be delivered from death, and Job sent up strong cries for death. " ' And that God would grant me the thing that I long for' From this it appears that Job was satisfied that his comforts should not end, though his life ended... | |
| James Ross - 1825 - 472 pages
...better than my fathers. And Job, the most patient man of his day, prays in similar language : O that I might have my request^ and that God would grant me the thing that I long for ! Even thai it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! Moses too,... | |
| 1841 - 440 pages
...At other times his grief appears too heavy to be borne ; "Oh that I might have my request," says he, "and that God would grant me the thing that I long...that he would let loose his hand and cut me off." Satan sets in like a flood, " Where is your God now ? Did not I tell you that this would be the end... | |
| 1826 - 1036 pages
...ment. u 8 Oh that I might have my request ; and that God would grant me ihe tiling that I long for ! 9 things which ihou seiltest to me for : and 1 nil'! 10 Then should I yel have comfort ; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow : let him not spare... | |
| Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 980 pages
...pain ; and his nights like his too, nights of weariness, yet he never was heard to say to God, ' O that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off; my soul chooseth strangling, and death, rather than life.*' He knew that by patience he was as well... | |
| George Townsend - Bible - 1826 - 902 pages
...white of an egg ? 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. 8 Oh that I might have my request ; and that God would grant me § the thing that I long for ! £"^,T"~ 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand, and cut... | |
| James Sieveright - Sermons, English - 1826 - 372 pages
...I want must come from God, and from him I ask it with unfeigned prayer. I say, wish Job, " O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for !" but I complain, with Jeremiah, "Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer." This is no... | |
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