 | Isaac Disraeli - History - 1833 - 406 pages
...antiquity of whose sublime poem is undoubted, anxious of clearing himself of all imputation, declared, " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath been idolatrous Jews is that of open insurrection. Even the imputation was fatal. The Lord had announced... | |
 | Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva - Ireland - 1833 - 390 pages
...one of those who believed in the true God, says, in his own vindication, " If I beheld the sun while it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand," &c. Job xxxi. 26, 27. This was a solemn oath, and the ceremony performed... | |
 | Sarah Hall - American essays - 1833 - 232 pages
...possessions to the purposes of pride or oppression — or if he had been betrayed into idolatry, when he " beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;" and ardently desires that the Almighty would appear, and permit him to plead his cause in His presence... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 pages
...art my confidence; if I rejoiced, because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand; this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for I should have... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1837 - 428 pages
...former impious wandering of your affections to others unworthy of devotion ; and say, with holy Job, ' If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge : for I should have... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1845 - 640 pages
...God.' ' You have said it, sir,' replied Lucy, and she receded farther from him as she spoke. ' " But if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand ; this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge ; for I should have... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Coins - 1834 - 392 pages
...the Lord, and their faces toward the east ; and they worshipped the sun." Job exclaimed — " If 1 beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath been secrttfy enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand : this also were an iniquity to be punished by the... | |
 | Edward Stanley (bishop of Norwich) - Birds - 1835 - 324 pages
...many of the heathen nations, and more especially the Egyptians. Thus Job alludes to it, when he says, If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart * Plutarch de Iside et Osiride. THE SACRED IBIS. hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...nations of the world. There are several passages of Scripture which refer to this peculiar kind of idolatry. " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or...brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand : this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : for I should have... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Avarice - 1836 - 328 pages
...confidence ;' if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much,— if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...; and my heart hath been secretly enticed,' or my mouth hath kissed my hand ; this were an iniquity to- be punished by the Judge ; for I should have... | |
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If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above. 
