...to move God to grant him a blessing. Job had the same design in praying to God.. ' Oh! said he, that I knew where I might find him.' that I might come even to his seat! I would order my speech before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.''' And what a variety of arguments...

...Scripture of those who have been thus led before you. Consider the remarkable language of Job : Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even, to his seat! that is, I wish to understand the cause : but, while / would fill my mouth with arguments upon it,...

...shall come unto me, and him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out. John vi. 37. 3. Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even into his seat. Job xxiii. 3. 3. I am found of them that sought me not, I said behold me, Sgc. Isaiah...

...xxiii. 8} 9. state, i state, that exclamation of Job's is often SERMON drawn forth from the pious heart, O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!* Surrounded by such distressing obscurity, no hope more transporting can be opened to a good man, than...

...hides his face, who then can Ithold him ? This was thft affecting cause of Job's extreme depression. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! Behold, 1 go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left hand...

...sovereignty, and even then they that seek him will Be weary. This was Job's case, when he cried, " O 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 him : on the left...

...And turn my night to flay.-* '•' • ••• ' No Peace when God it absent froM the Soul: 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat. Job xxiii. '.'>. 1 O This poor restless heart of mine. Where would it rove to-day ? • It seems to...

...answered and said, 2 Even to-day w my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that ake glad the city of God, the holy olace of the tabernacles of the ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which...

...my misery : and hence, in all the anguish of a woundedspirit, I could scarcely forbear to exclaim, ' O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ' He seems to plead against me with his great power, I go forward, but he is not there ; backwards,...

...fathers full of years and full of honours. William, however, continued in deep sorrow, saying, " 0 that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments." The Clergyman of the parish,...