 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 924 pages
...himself from this species of idolatry, chap. xxxi. ver. 26—28 : " If I beheld the sun when it shincd, ount Zion, on which the temple was built, though it might be said to be more prop mouth hath kissed my hand : this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge ; for I should have... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Christianity - 1836 - 232 pages
...lived either in or after the time of Moses, he never could have said, when wishing to clear himself of Idolatry, "If I beheld the Sun when it shined, or the Moon walking in brightness," but he would have spoken in something like the following manner, If I beheld Baal-Peor, or looked to... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...worship among the Arabians, the I'jjiitication which Job makes of himself is a sufficient (roof; * ' If I beheld the sun, when it shined, or the moon, walking in brightness, and mine heart hath been ««.•retly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand,' that f, if «Ątli devotion... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...sun when it shined," says an Arab of old, in clearing hit character from the sins of his country, " 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... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1905 - 372 pages
...for all the host of heaven . . . wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord " (II Kings xxi, 5, 6). " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed " (Job xxxi, 26, 27), and in the second commandment (Ex. xx, 4), the first forbidden image is that... | |
 | Clive Staples Lewis - Bible - 1958 - 166 pages
...do not now easily realise. A passage from Job (not without its own wild poetry in it) may help us : "if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth kissed my hand; this also would be an iniquity" (31, 26-28). There is here no question of turning,... | |
 | Kristoffer Nyrop - Kissing - 1898 - 216 pages
...him. In the thirty-first chapter of the book of Job he praises himself for his godliness, and says: "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." Here he is evidently alluding to the hand kiss or thrown kiss, by which... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 give the rain of thy seed, that thou shall sow the ground withal; and 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity... | |
 | Mungo Park, James Rennell - History - 2000 - 420 pages
...asked, for 1. Chap. xxxi. ver. 26, 27, 28. [Bible, Authorized (KingJames) Version, Job 31: 26-28. "(26) If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; (27) And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: (28) This also were... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - Fiction - 2001 - 308 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... | |
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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. 
