 | William Haslett - 1825 - 224 pages
...placed in circumstances in which his prospects darken every hour. — He is now ready to say with Job, "I go forward but he is not there, and backward but I cannot perceive him — 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come, even to his seat." In this situation how... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...excellence. He says, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come near unto his seat ! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot find him. On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him." Job saw the natural perfections... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him ; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1827 - 376 pages
...those affections raised to the highest pitch. He is not indeed to be discerned by any of our senses : " I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left band where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. 8 Y4 7 *z3 3 : : :)*# N# . 9 9R:S:L;M;N;O;$5 : : : : 9^; 1 4 4 : 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right... | |
 | James Haldane Stewart - 1828 - 500 pages
...more particular meaning. It is as if Job should say, ' However ignorant f am of the design; " though I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him;" still " hp knows the way," &c, The present mysterious dispensation is not the effect of a blind necessity... | |
 | Canonicus - 1828 - 168 pages
...all-pervading, ever-present, infinite Spirit, " in whom you live and move and have your being "? Must you not say with Job, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; backward, but I cannot perceive him ; on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...is concealed from ns. ' Oh that I knew where I might find him ! ' says Job. ' Behold I go forwiird, Ǣ 0 y `SQ 6熖髇 oVAR - %.K C - does work, hut I cannot behold him : he bidet h himself on the right hand that I cannot see him.' Iu... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...driven with the wind, and tossed," unless there be some grand principle to anchor it This Job had. " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he dotli work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but... | |
 | 1832 - 488 pages
...ing our hearts with food and ' gladness :"q but yet he retires and conceals himself from our view : " Behold I go forward, but he is not ' there ; and backward, but I cannot ' perceive him : on the left hand, 1 where he doth work, but I cannot ' behold him ; he hideth himself on ' the right hand, that I cannot... | |
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Behold I go forward, But he is not there ; And backward, But I cannot perceive him : On the left hand, when he doth work, But I cannot behold him ; He hideth himself on the right hand, That I cannot see him. 
