If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above. The Juvenile instructor and companion - Page 153by Young people - 1882Full view - About this book
| Lady - 1824 - 452 pages
...possessions to the purposes of pride or oppression — or if he had u been betrayed into idolatry, when he " beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness ;" and ardently desires that the Almighty would appear, and permit him to plead his cause in His presence... | |
| Thomas Wood - 1825 - 440 pages
...worship may justly be divided. Concerning the former of these, Job, who lived about AM 2600, says, " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...; for I should have denied the God that is above." As to the latter, Euhemerus, in the account he wrote on the gods, shows that they were only men. There... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1825 - 564 pages
...extensive. This divine Writer* says, chap. xxxi. 20 — 28, If I beheld the sun, when it shined, of the moon, walking in brightness ; and my heart hath...: for I should have denied the God that is above. Job probably lived between I600 and 1 700 years before Christ; or about three hundred and fifty years... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 pages
...order to express his not having fallen into idolatry, very elegantly says, If I beheld the sun while it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand, &.c. (Job xxxi. 26, 27.) ; for to kiss and to worship are synonymous terms in Scripture, as appears... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...the same way, the ancient idolaters worshipped their distant or unseen deities. " If," said Job, " I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, this also were an iniquity to be punished... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1825 - 338 pages
...hyperhole. And radiant moon to whom iht nations bate And lift their Handt in homage. o " If I heheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart hath heen secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand," &e.— Job zzxi. 26, 37. I By Nisrock, and... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven, Dent. iv. 19. This also wer« an iniquity to be punished by the judge ; for I should have denied toe God that ii above, Job red. 28. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pages
...we find in the early period in which Job lived, that these were recognised as objects of worship. " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...judge, for I should have denied the God that is above *." The splendour and usefulness of the sun and moon led the Chaldeans and Assyrians, among whom their... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 pages
...we find in the early period. in which Job lived, that these were recognised as objects of worship. " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...judge, for I should have denied the God that is above *." The splendour and usefulness of the sun and moon led the Chaldeans and Assyrians, among whom their... | |
| William Brown - 1826 - 718 pages
...hand to the sun, in token of veneration. Accordingly, Job, in allusion to this last kind, says,8 " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...the judge ; for I should have denied the God that » Wisdom xiii. 14, 15. . b Ezek. xvi. 17, 18. Baruch vi. 9—15, 27, 30. c Ezek. viii. 6, 11, 15;... | |
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