| 1789 - 428 pages
...but " HE is not there; and backward, but I cannot " perceive HIM: on the left hand, where HE " does work, but I cannot behold HIM : HE " hideth HIMSELF on the right hand that I can" not fee HIM*." In fhort, reafon as well as revelation aflures us that HE cannot be abfent *... | |
| Missions - 1807 - 672 pages
...face from them. He says, therefore, — " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Therefore am I troubled at his presence : when I consider, I am afraid of him : for... | |
| John Wilkins - Cryptography - 1802 - 294 pages
...Job. xxxviii. 4. Ps. cii. 25. f Ps. cxxxvi. 6. xxiv. 3. i Subtil. Exercit. 67. § Job xxiii. 8. 9. behold him. He hideth himself on the right hand, that 1 cannot see him. Which expressions are by some interpreters referred unto the. four coasts of heaven, according to the... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...forward, but he is not there; and b,ackwa.rd, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him; he hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see him.' In short, reason as well as revelation assures us that he cannot be absent from... | |
| John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him :• on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Job wanted to reason with God, one would suppose from these complaints, not being... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see him." In short, reason as well as revelation assures us, that he cannot be absent from... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...hurried and discomposed by my affliction, that I 9 am all confusion ; I look On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him :] he hideth himself on the 10 right hand, that I cannot see [him :] But he knowelh the wajr that I take ; tMtig my comfort, that... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...forward, says Job, but he is not there; and backwards, but I canjiot perceive him ; on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Here were strenuous exertions, but all to no purpose. He went backward and forward,... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 386 pages
...he,"Igo 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 : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." In this situation he exclaims, as in the text, " Oh, that I knew where•.I might... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 494 pages
...forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see him.' In short, reason as well as revelation assures us, that he cannot be absent from... | |
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