 | Charles Henry Wharton, George Washington Doane - 1834 - 444 pages
...increase his dejection. In the full bitterness of his soul he is ready to exclaim with David, " O 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." If, indeed, I am still the child of God, " why go... | |
 | Richard Charles Coxe - 1834 - 380 pages
...the change ; — there can be little doubt, that he will be prepared to exclaim with Job, " 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 ; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 448 pages
...he deplored the absence of those consolations which he had formerly enjoyed. " Oh," cried he, " 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 !" Job xxix. 2, 3. " I am the man that hath seen affliction... | |
 | Samuel Pike, Samuel Hayward - 1834 - 442 pages
...spirituality and comfort of soul, which he once enjoyed ; and, therefore, cries out with Job, " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me : when his candle shone upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness !" Job xxix. 2, 3. Or, as the same... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...CANULK — emblem of prosperity, success, joy. "His candle shall be put out." Job xviii. "O that t were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved...me; when his candle shined upon my head." Job xxix. OANnLESTicK, or lamp, is sometimes the symbol of government, but frequently of affording instruction,... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' O that uld and when by his light I walked through darkness: When the Almighty was yet with me; when my children... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1836 - 408 pages
...and who could have no knowledge of the Law given by Moses, says of himself in his affliction,' O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle sinned upon my head, and byWj light I walked through darkness ' — with more, indicating the possession... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...trace with alarm the progress of decay in himself, and to exclaim in the language of Job, " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; wheel his candle seined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness j as I was... | |
 | John Pring - 1837 - 508 pages
...Job, before he, also exclaims in the anguish of his heart on account of such a casualty, " 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 ; as I was in the days of my youth, WHEN THE SECRET... | |
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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... 
