 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 426 pages
...attempt to pray, but all in vain. They will be constrained to use the emphatic language of Job, " O 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 htm -, ou the left... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pages
...sore trial, as we may find from the language of those who have experienced it. " O," says Job, " 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 left hand... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...obnervclh our ways. 1 1 Job's innrjccncy. 13 God's decree is immutable. r~T* HEN Job answered and said, A hnd him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...surety; and, when he found himself at the throne of judgment, he looks for the throne of grace; " 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; there the righteous might disr... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 pages
...work, but I cannot behold him : He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. O 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... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...the pureness of thine hands. CHAP. XXIII. Job asserteth his Innocence. THEN Job answered and said, 3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I...come, even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth "with arguments. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there : and backward,... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...approbation. In this world of our exile, we look for him, but cannot behold him, and with Job say, " Oh that I '' knew where I might find him ! that I might come " even to his seat ! I would order my cause before tl " him, and fill my mouth with arguments."* We obey the voice of... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1814 - 374 pages
...words, " This is' (he day the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it." And these, " 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 wilh arguments." — In reading Rom. vii. also,... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pages
...to move God to grant him a blessing. Job had the same design in praying to God.. ' Oh! said he, that I knew where I might find him.' that I might come even to his seat! I would order my speech before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.''' And what a variety of arguments... | |
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Oh 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. 
