| Robert Miln - Bible and science - 1786 - 434 pages
...by an antient writer, * Behold I go forward, but he is not there, and backward but I cannot ferceive him. On the left hand where he doth work? but I cannot behold him : he hideth -him' felf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him. The Deity could receive no additional happinefs... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...my judge. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there : and backward, but I cannot perceive him : 9 On the left hand,, where he doth work, but I cannot...hideth himfelf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I fhail come forth as gold. 1 1 fl... | |
| 1789 - 428 pages
...concealed from us. " O that I knew where I might " findniM!" fays Job. "Behold I go for ward, but " HE is not there; and backward, but I cannot " perceive HIM: on the left hand, where HE " does work, but I cannot behold HIM : HE " hideth HIMSELF on the right hand that I can" not fee HIM*."... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...concealed from us. ' Oh that I knew where • I might find him ! (fays Job.) Behold « I go forward, but he is not there ; and • backward, but I cannot perceive him : • on the left hand, where he does werk, • but I cannot behold him: he hideth him• felf on the right hand that I cannot fee '... | |
| John Richardson - Quakers - 1791 - 264 pages
...precious than gold. The excellent fayings of Job came into my mind, " Behold, I go *' forward, but be is not there ; and backward, but I .** cannot perceive...I cannot behold him : He hideth himfelf on *' the fight hand, that 1 cannot fee him." Job xxiii. 9, 9. And then in verfe the joth, he, like a man in... | |
| David Williamson (minister, of Whitehaven.) - France - 1792 - 448 pages
...that I knew where I might find him that Imigbt come even to his feat: Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ', and backward, but I cannot perceive him. On the left hand, where be doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hidtth himfelf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him.... | |
| Oliver Heywood - 1796 - 272 pages
...complaint bitter; my ftroke is heavier than ..>..>{»...4.. than my groaning. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive...himfelf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him. Oh that I knew where I might find him!' You ought, my dear friend, to keep in mind the neceflary diftinftionwe... | |
| Oliver HEYWOOD - 1796 - 274 pages
...bitter ; my ftroke is heavier than •»-» ;-«.-«•. than my groaning. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive...hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hidethhimfelf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him. Oh that I knew where I might find him !' You... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1796 - 210 pages
...is concealed from us. ' O that I knew where I might find him ! fays Job. Behold I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him. On the left hand where he does work but I cannot behold him : he hideth himfelf on the right hand, that I cannot fee him.' In... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 512 pages
...great afflicVum, he cries unto the Lord, and he does not regard him ; " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left-hand, where he doth work, but I cannot be- • hold him; he- -hideth him felt on the right hand,... | |
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