| Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 306 pages
...sometimes left to adopt the language of Job, and say, of God. the source of all his former joys, (t Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him ; on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on... | |
| 1817 - 368 pages
...us, because he is concealed from us. ' О that I knew where I might find him !' says Job. 'Behold 1 go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand where he does work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - Christian education - 1818 - 248 pages
...complaint — Oh that I knew where I might find my Redeemer! 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, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on... | |
| William Barlass, Peter Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 688 pages
...when he cried, " 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 him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot .behold him : he hideth himself on... | |
| Daniel Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 594 pages
...extreme depression. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! Behold, 1 go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the... | |
| Congregational churches - 1837 - 552 pages
...to be driven from the coasts. You will feel after him, but cannot find him. "Behold," you will say, "I go forward but he is not there, and backward but I cannot perceive him, on the left hand where he doth work, but 1 cannot behold him; he hidcth himself on the... | |
| Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...expressing himself in these lamentable terms, — " Oh that I knew where I might find him ! Behold I go forward, but he is not there : and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on... | |
| Tallcut Patching - Baptism - 1822 - 472 pages
...come even to HIS seat? I would order my cause before HIM, and fill my mouth with arguments. Behold I go forward but he is not there ; and backward but I cannot perceive him — on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him ; he hideth himself on... | |
| James M'Chord - Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements) - 1822 - 402 pages
...of the flesh: "Oh, that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his teat!—Behold I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the... | |
| Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...with us because he is concealed from us. ' O that I knew where I might find him !' says Job. ' Behold I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him; on the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on... | |
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