| Joseph Thorpe Milner - 1836 - 256 pages
...mightily to God for mercy. I continued about seven weeks in this state, often crying outwith Job, ' 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 with arguments.' It was not long before I was... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 636 pages
...when you miss his presence in his courts ; you will " go mourning without the sun," crying, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 3. When the King calls you to court, or ,to come near to his throne, do not refuse his order. When,... | |
| Christian life - 1837 - 250 pages
...judgment and condemn me. "7- I must seek the Lord in prayer, feeling as did Job, when he said, " O, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat !" And this I must do, as Judah is ouce said to have done, with my " whole desire." Yea, I must search for him with all my heart. I must... | |
| John Pring - 1837 - 508 pages
...a chance of seeing him ; as J6b thought of their Author, the Author of their existence, " Oh, that I knew where I might find Him ! that I might come even to his seat ! " (Job xxiii. 3.) But the residence of good angels, as well as of evil, has been already defined... | |
| Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: 'my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that Y* '0- ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words tchich... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1837 - 834 pages
...consciousness, there needed no other Jiell to constitute his misery. His doleful language was, "O that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to his seat! Bchold, I go forward, but he is not there: and backward, but I cannot perceive Him: on the left hand,... | |
| English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...goodness, and her own guilt ; she longed to get near him, to enjoy a sense of his favour, crying, " O that I knew where I might find him ; that I might come even to his seat 1 " The Lord heard these cries, and answered them in his own way. " I have also determined," she writes,... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 568 pages
...preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (5) Matt. vi. 13. (6) Job xxiii. 3, 4. 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 with arguments. Je'r. xiv. 20,21. worthiness... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...work, but I cannot behold him : he hidcth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. 0 that I 'knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat!* But is he then afar off? does he not fill heaven and earth with his presence ? The presence of our... | |
| John Pring - 1838 - 588 pages
...the greatest interest, and of Job himself, for one : who thus exclaims ou the difficulty, " Oh, 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... | |
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