 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4261814Full view - About this book
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 376 pages
...when I prepared my seat in the street, the young men saw me and hid themselves : and the aged rose and stood up. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. They waited lor me as for... | |
 | 1818 - 948 pages
...their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roofof their mouth. 1 1 m. 12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up to me : 12 Because I delivered the poor that tried, and the fatherless, and kirn ttuit had none to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 478 pages
...the esteem and good-will of all who know him, he sees blessings multiplied round him, on every side. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it SERMON gave witness to me : Because I delivered the v poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that... | |
 | Robert Balfour - 1819 - 228 pages
...Apostle' a prayer far the Colouiani, i. 9—13. and by Fttcr, 2 1>. i. 2.— IS. ver. 11 — 14. " When the ear heard me, then it " blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave " witness to me, because I delivered the poor " that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had " none to help... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...children were about me: When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil. ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.... | |
 | William Bengo'. Collyer - 1819 - 82 pages
...species.-f* Of all modern philanthropists, I think none had stronger ground for saying, with Job, ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1840 - 644 pages
...his seed is blessed." Job was a truly liberal man, for he says in defence, against his accusers, " When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that was ready to perish... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...soul grieved for the poor" ? Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me0. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, then it gave witness to me ; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1820 - 576 pages
...them happily free ; and, amid the calm occupations of sequestered industry, even the influence of the legislature is but distantly felt. But the influence...when the eye " saw me, it gave witness unto me. I de" livered the poor and the fatherless, and " him that had none to help him. The " blessing of him... | |
 | 1827 - 304 pages
..."it is more blessed to give than to receive !" He can adopt the language of the once prosperous Job : "When the ear heard me then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poolthat cried, and the fatherless and him that had none to help him.... | |
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