 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 554 pages
...further acquaintance with him, and greater nearness to him. Job. xxiii. 3. — O that I knew inhere I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! Longings after communion with him. Psalm Ixiii. 1, 2. 0 God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - 1812 - 188 pages
...before the Lord and said who am IO Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hither ? I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. Lamentations. Let us lift up our hearts with outhands unto God into the heavens. Baruch ii 1 6. O Lord... | |
 | 1812 - 458 pages
...from the root rD3 Nacach, but from HO11 yocach, which means to justify, to vindicate, Job 23. 4. " I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with JlirOVl arguments or justifications." — Micah 6. 2. " for the Lord hath a controversy with his people,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 pages
...work, but I cannot behold him : He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat !"* But is he then afar off? Does he not fill heaven and earth with his presence? The presence of our... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1814 - 374 pages
...words, " This is' (he day the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it." And these, " O that I knew where I might find him ! That I might come...would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth wilh arguments." — In reading Rom. vii. also, the Spirit of God bore witness with my spirit, that... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...approbation. In this world of our exile, we look for him, but cannot behold him, and with Job say, " Oh that I '' knew where I might find him ! that I might come..." even to his seat ! I would order my cause before tl " him, and fill my mouth with arguments."* We obey the voice of the messengers, but walk in darkness... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pages
...to move God to grant him a blessing. Job had the same design in praying to God.. ' Oh! said he, that I knew where I might find him.' that I might come even to his seat! I would order my speech before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.''' And what a variety of arguments did Daniel... | |
 | 1804 - 502 pages
...aspirations of the heaven-born soul ? We find, likewise, Job longing for communion with God ; "Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 1 would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." xxiii. 3, 4. In reference to... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...Scripture of those who have been thus led before you. Consider the remarkable language of Job : Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even, to his seat! that is, I wish to understand the cause : but, while / would fill my mouth with arguments upon it,... | |
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Oh that I knew where I might find him, That I might come even to his seat! 
