| Congregational churches - 1804 - 828 pages
...dare fay, more perfectly than you ever did before, the penfive language of Job, " I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive...himfelf on the right hand that I cannot fee him." This is very much your own cafe. It is a fad one, but you wil! not, I hope, be funk too much, or be... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...against me with his groat power? No ; but he would put strength in me. 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 hideih himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: but he knoweth the way that I take : when... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...concealed from us. ' O that I knew where I might find him '.' says 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 himself on the ritiht hand that I cannot see him.' In... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...concealed from us. " O that I knew where I might find him ! (says 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 himself on the jight-hand, that... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...plead for me f I am to hurried and discomposed by my affliction, that I 9 am all confusion ; I look On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him :] he hideth himself on the 10 right hand, that I cannot see [him :] But he knowelh the wajr that I take ; tMtig... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 386 pages
...possessed of a desire, yet unable to approach him"jBehold," says he,"Igo forward, but he is not there: backward, but I cannot perceive him. On the left hand,...he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." In this situation he exclaims, as in the text, "... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...thut he who should comfort their souls is far from them. I go forward, says the deserted soul, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him ; on the left hand where he doth work, but 1 cannot behold him : he hidelh himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. This thought then... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 494 pages
...concealed from us. ' O that I knew where I might find him !' says 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 himself on the right hand that I cannot see him.' In... | |
| Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 426 pages
...indwelling corruptions, they lament, in the bitter language of Job, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive...he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." At such times nothing can satisfy a real believer,... | |
| Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...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...left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him r he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." " Lord," says David, " why castest thou... | |
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