 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808
...finer picture of a charitable and goodnatured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...me: when his candle shined upon my head, and when by Lis light I walked through darkness: When the Almighty was yet with me; when my children were about... | |
 | Bible - 1808
...same anciently, perhaps the words of Job might refer to it. ch. xxix. 2, 3. Oh! that it rvere with me as in months past, as in the days when GOD preserved me : when his candle shined upon my head, ( when I returned prosperous from expeditions against the enemies of my tribe, and had my tent adorned... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808
...face; and now he languishes and mourns, and is ready to despond. " O that [ were as in months past, when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness!" " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat, I would order my cause... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808
...author. ' Oh that I were as in mouths past, as in the days when God preserved me: when his caudle shiried upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness : When the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children were about me : When I washed my steps with... | |
 | 1852
...commencement of the twenty-ninth chapter, is beautifully elucidated by reference to eastern customs. " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shincd upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness." For " candle " our author would... | |
 | 1809 - 959 pages
...himself of his farmer firosfifrity mid honour. MOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that 1 h-lehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and co ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; 4 As 1 was... | |
 | Bible - 1809
...care ! You would then give a greater regard to my words, than you do now in my misfortune ; Ver. 3. When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness :] Which has lett me nothing but only wishes, that he would restore me those... | |
 | Samuel Richardson (teacher of short-hand.) - 1810
...the greatest sublunary loss. PLATE XIV. JOB XXIX. 1—22. Job continued his parable, and said, Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when...upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkH 2 ness; as I was in the days of my youth, when thfc secret of God was upon ray tabernacle ; when... | |
 | Eliphalet Nott - Charity - 1810 - 280 pages
...pitiable condition, left without a friend to solace or a benefactor to relieve them, he exclaimed, " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when GOD preserved me. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; because I delivered... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811
...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness : when the Almighty was yet with me : when my children were about me : when I washed my steps with... | |
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Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness... 
