 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 924 pages
...cir. 2484. B. <J. cir. 1520. Ante I. Ol. cir. 744. Ante UCC7G7. 8 a Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him...hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : JOB. 10 assert his innocence. * Ch. ii. 11. ь pa. cixxix. 1, 2, 3.tbat ¡a with me. '- Heb. tin-... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 636 pages
...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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Even then the tree of life brings forth fruit by his Spirit in his branches; for hereby they are made... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...constrained to say of God : " 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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him" (xxiii. 8, 9). What then must be the confusion of the ungodly? and, above all, a» Job himself asks,... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1836 - 162 pages
...unsearchableness of God. "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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Vexed with many and sore trials, the Patriarch vainly strove to understand God's dealings, and, though... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him."§ Could any thing more pathetically express the lamentations of a people who saw the extraordinary providence,... | |
 | Christian life - 1837 - 428 pages
...road, " behold, saith he, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him ; on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Job xxiii. 8. You are highly favoured indeed, I would to God I was like you. Aris. And so you are,... | |
 | Richard Marks - Meditations - 1838 - 386 pages
...Job, when he exclaimed, " 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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Ah, my ever gracious and compassionate Lord, leave not thy poor servant, or any of thy praying people... | |
 | London female mission - 1838 - 444 pages
...verses 8, 9 ; " 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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." So holy David, Psal. Ixiii. 1. "0 God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee." You see his interest... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...by any of our senses: " 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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Oh, that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat."* But is he then afar off?... | |
 | John Michael Hiffernan - 1839 - 308 pages
...which seeth in secret. " 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...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Coldness and languor freeze and paralyse my soul. The wanderings of imagination dissipate and distract... | |
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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 right hand, that I cannot see him. 
