 | Peter Smith - Sermons - 1818 - 484 pages
...for such a deplorable fate, we may be apt to bemoan ourselves in the pathetic language of Job : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness. Whon the Almighty was yet with me, when my wife and children were about me. But now the thing which... | |
 | Henry Fowler (dissenting minister.) - 1818
...will not cease flowing, but follow thee all the dayt of thy life. 30. THE BELIEVER UNDER A CLOUD. Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.— Job xxix. 2. , 1. JESUS, my soul's athirst for thee, Absent from thee I cannot rest; Come now, reveal... | |
 | 1818 - 792 pages
...depart from evil is understanding. CHAP. XXIX. IOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh _ Ɠ݁ 冑 ( Ƨ ܁ ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness ; 4 As 1 was... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - Christian education - 1818 - 214 pages
...than all he deplored the absence of those joyful feelings he had once possessed. " Oh," cried he, " that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; tehen his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I tealked through darkness! (Job xxix.... | |
 | British essayists - 1819
...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...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 butter,... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819
...traveller01. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my 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... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Bible - 1820 - 308 pages
...said, Oh ! that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me; when liis candle shincd upon my head, and when by his light, I walked through darkness. 2. As it was with me in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle ; when... | |
 | Evangelistic work - 1821 - 256 pages
...darkness and perplexity ; I deplore my unhappy stale, and refleet upon niv departed pleasures. " Oh thai I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his eandle shined upon my head, and wheu by his light I walked through darkness." 6. But ehanges are not... | |
 | John Logan - 1821
...his time, as we learn from his affecting complaint, when he reviewed the days of his prosperity : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; as in the days of my youth, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my head, when the Almighty was... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 771 pages
...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. 1 On : 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... 
