 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
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...understood too well the meaning of Job to worship aught but God ; and would have joined him in saying — " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...Judge: for I should have denied the God that is above." Is it not astonishing that, surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, these deluded people should... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1829 - 320 pages
...art my confidence ; If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...were an iniquity to be punished by the judge ; for I sheuld have denied the God that is above."—JOB xxxi. 24—28. 121 A SERMON BEFORE THE SOCIETY FOR... | |
 | James Haines McCulloh - 1829 - 558 pages
...manner of adoration. This seems to have been that kind of idolatry alluded to by Job, xxxi, 26, 27. "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand."* The Peruvians also pulled out some of their eyebrows and laying them on their hands blew them towards... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...plainly illustrate this primitive mode of adoration than the protestation of Job, chap, xxxi. 26, 27, ' If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my mouth hath kissed my hand, this also were iniquity.' In the Hebrew idiom, kissing, (from such a usage... | |
 | 1829 - 682 pages
...were reverenced as the noblest of created things, became a part of the Creator himself; when men " beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness," their hearts were secretly enticed, and their mouths kissed their hands. The unity of the Godhead being... | |
 | Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam - 1829 - 362 pages
...prevalent throughout all the east, from which Job esteemed himself happy to have been preserved : WTien [ beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness ; my heart hath not been secretly enticed, nor my mouth kissed my hand. { The Persians adored the sun,}... | |
 | Clive Staples Lewis - 1958 - 166 pages
...do not now easily realise. A passage from Job (not without its own wild poetry in it) may help us : "if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth kissed my hand; this also would be an iniquity" (31, 26-28). There is here no question of turning,... | |
 | Kristoffer Nyrop - 1898 - 216 pages
...him. In the thirty-first chapter of the book of Job he praises himself for his godliness, and says: "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand." Here he is evidently alluding to the hand kiss or thrown kiss, by which the Gentiles used to greet... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 give the rain of thy seed, that thou shall sow the ground withal; and 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity... | |
 | Sherry Hutson Camperson - 1996 - 162 pages
...If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much . . . .This . . . were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. '—Job 31:24, 25, 28. Prolific hymnwriter Philip P. Bliss left precious thoughts for us in his journals.... | |
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