 | Thomas Wilson - Prayers - 1812 - 188 pages
...before the Lord and said who am IO Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hither ? I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. Lamentations. Let us lift up our hearts with outhands unto God into the heavens. Baruch ii 1 6. O Lord... | |
 | Classical philology - 1812 - 458 pages
...from the root rD3 Nacach, but from HO11 yocach, which means to justify, to vindicate, Job 23. 4. " I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with JlirOVl arguments or justifications." — Micah 6. 2. " for the Lord hath a controversy with his people,... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...guide who could not lead Mm astray. And thus Job relieved his mind, under a pressure of perplexity. " Behold, I go forward, but he " is not there, and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him; " on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot " behold him : he hideth... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1814 - 374 pages
...the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it." And these, " O 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 wilh arguments." — In reading Rom. vii. also, the Spirit of God bore witness with my spirit, that... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...come, even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth "with arguments. 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 behold him : he. hideth himself on the right... | |
 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...exile, we look for him, but cannot behold him, and with Job say, " Oh that I '' knew where I might find him ! that I might come " even to his seat ! I would order my cause before tl " him, and fill my mouth with arguments."* We obey the voice of the messengers, but walk in darkness... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...complaining, " Why standest thou afar off, O Lord '{" " Why hidest thou thyself in time of trouble?" " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him :" " O that I knew where I might find him !" " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" — And... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1815 - 422 pages
...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 did Daniel... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...heavier than my groaning. 3 O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will... | |
 | Cotton Mather - Natural theology - 1815 - 378 pages
...even therefore mount upward, in acknowledgment of the God who orders it. I will no longer complain, Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but Tcannot perceive him - t on the left hand, where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him ; He hideth... | |
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Oh 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. 
