Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My judgment... The Spectator - Page 351726 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...administerirg justice, were more conspicuous and 15 ornamental than my robes and ensigns of honour. I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame ; / directed the ignorant 16 and fte rplcxc d, and hel/ied the weak and the fer ble. I [was] a father... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 340 pages
...fmg for j<.»y. I put on righteounefs, and it clothed me ; my judgement was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 1 was a lather in the poor : and the caufe which I knew not I fearch. ed out. 4. ...Doth not God fee... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame ; I »'as a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Did not I weep for him that... | |
| Bible - 1808 - 558 pages
...sickness, or hurt by accidents, and to guide them in their way that were blind, or ignorant of it, says, / was eyes to the blind) and feet was I to the lame, Job xxix. 15. • Sec Numb. ixvi. 10. Every body, accordingly, at all acquainted with the nature of... | |
| Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...pronounced as a greater ornament than the purple robe on my shoulder, and the diadem upon my head. Ver. 15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.] I instructed him who did not well understand his own business, and assisted him who wanted means to carry... | |
| John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 1102 pages
...blefling of him that was ready to perifli came upon me, and I caufed the widow's heart to fing for joy. " I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame." After leaving Buxton, paffed through Middleton dale, a deep narrow chafm between two vaft cliffs, which... | |
| Samuel Richardson (teacher of short-hand.) - 1810 - 134 pages
...sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me ; my judg-. incut was a robe and a diadem ; I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame ; I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and... | |
| Eliphalet Nott - Baccalaureate addresses - 1810 - 292 pages
...complaints upon the hill of Mizar. Thus Job spent the season of his prosperity. " I was eyes,1' says he " to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out. The stranger did not lodge in the streets,... | |
| Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...Ver. 14. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. Ver. 15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. Ver. 1 6. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Ver. 1 7. And... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured out rivers of oil. the wido\v's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame ; I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out. Did I not weep for him that was in trouble,... | |
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