 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...of OIL. — I put on righteousness and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. — I brake the jaws of the WICKED, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. — I CHOSE OUT THEIR WAY, and sat chief, and dwelt as a KING in the army."t In these words the writer... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I n, 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 19 My root was 'spread... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1837 - 518 pages
...Job say, " I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. I brake the jaws of the wicked ; and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. I was a father to the poor ; I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. The blessing of him... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1837 - 740 pages
...species of fraud, oppression, and wrong. Thus, in the character given of himself by Job, he says, ' I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.' " It would be difficult to find a more striking and appropriate example of the simultaneous activity... | |
 | Thomas Jee - Christianity - 1837 - 96 pages
...I to the lame. I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew riot, I searched out. And I brake the Jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. The wise man has well explained the meaning of the last words of Job, where he compares the unfeeling... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 404 pages
...attributes and actions of Job. He " was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor. He brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. When the ear heard him, it blessed him, when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him."... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth," Job xxix. 11 — 17. To act up to this great example would be the fairest coronet ever worn by the... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause, which I knew not, I searched out. I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth,"' Job xxix. 15—17. That is a grand performance ; but it is reserved for those who have well improved... | |
 | Charles Cator - 1839 - 146 pages
...feet was I to the lame ; I was a father to the poor ; the cause which I knew not, I searched out: I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.* For these are the works of that righteousness which it has pleased God to make the basis of the British... | |
 | John Armstrong (bp. of Grahamstown.) - 1839 - 568 pages
...feet was I to the lame ; I was a father to the poor ; the cause which I knew not, I searched out : I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.* For these are the works of that righteousness which it has pleased God to make the basis of the British... | |
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I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : And the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, And plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 
