For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked 4 For there are no bands in their death : but their strength is firm. Calcutta Review - Page 931857Full view - About this book
| John Towne - 1756 - 410 pages
...was that this profperity was mort and tranfient, and would be foon Succeeded by a terrible reverfe. " When I thought to know " this, it was too painful for me. Until I w went into the fanttuary of God ; then un" derftood I their end. Surely thou didft fet them in flippery... | |
| Thomas Halyburton - 1756 - 306 pages
...fearch of fuch arguments ; and I found them ; but found not that relief I expefted : Pfalm Ixxiii. 16. When I thought to know this, it -was too painful for me. For, 1 . The moft ftraitning and forcible of thole arguments proceeding upon the abfurdity of the contrary... | |
| John Barclay - 1776 - 516 pages
...ver. 5. which I iliull leave to every honeft and wife' heart to confider; and pafe on to ver. 16. * When I • thought to know this, it was too painful for me' — or rather, as the margin tells us, according to the Hebrew reading, ' It was labour in/ mine '... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1793 - 384 pages
...if, 16. If 1 fay, I will fpeak thus ; behold, I fhould offend againfl the generation of thy children. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me. And Ixxvii. 8, Q, 10. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promife fail for evermore; hath God... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 pages
...; I should set them a had example, and- grieve the men and injure the cause that Gad 16 af./iroves. When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me ; before I determined the point, I was wilting to study it more closely, and I found difficulties in... | |
| James Dana - 1806 - 518 pages
...contemplation of thefe things, good men have fold, " My feet were almoft gone ; my " fteps had well nigh flipt. When I thought to know " this, it was too painful for me." This notwithftanding, "God is good to Ifrael, even to fuch as are of a " clean heart." Why then fhould... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...while the wicked prosper, as to say, Doth the God of Heaven take notice of these things, &c? LXXIII. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me i If I should yield to these weak thoughts, surely I should do wrong to the happy estate of thy faithful... | |
| 1809 - 556 pages
...these men do, I should basely betray the cause of all them who are truly dear unto thee ; . 'Ver. 16. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.] And therefore resolved with myself, before I pronounced my sentence, to study this point more seriously,... | |
| George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pages
...that account, is to belie their hope, renounce their faith, and strike his name out of their list. 16. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me. A second reason why a man should not be too forward to arraign God's dispensations of injustice, is... | |
| Hervey Wilbur - 1814 - 184 pages
...pride of his counte. 120 nance will not seek after GOD : GOD is not in all his thoughts. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. And they say,... | |
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