 | Thomas Lewis - Christian life - 1839 - 404 pages
...once easy and beneficial. It was when possessed of knowledge from this source that Job could say, " Unto me men gave ear, and waited and kept silence at my counsel. After my words they spake not again ; and my speech dropped upon them. And they waited for me as for... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...shall die in. my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in-my hand. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. After my words they spake... | |
 | George Paxton - Bible - 1842 - 586 pages
...!' In the days of his moist time, when, as he expresses it, ' my root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch : my glory was fresh in me.'t Not in the days of his disgrace then, the days in which he was stript of his ornaments, as an... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...as the sand. 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 2 1 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 22 After my words they spake... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Celebrities - 1842 - 476 pages
...his lips. Would his humility have permitted he might justly have made use of the words of Job — " Unto me men gave ear and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. After my words, they spake not again." — You who now hear me know the truth of these things ; and... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1843 - 314 pages
...shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand. My root was spread out by the waters, And the dew lay all night upon my branch. My glory...gave ear, and waited, And kept silence at my counsel. After my words they spake not again ; And my speech dropped upon them. And they waited for me as for... | |
 | Christian life - 1843 - 722 pages
...my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle, when my roof was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch ; my glory...was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand ; when I was like an oracle in the gate, they all gave ear and listened to me." But how sweet it is... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. My root was spiead out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. My glory...gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. After my words they spake not again : and my speech dropped upon them. And they waited for me as for... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...us the sand. 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept, silence at my counsel! 22 After my words they spake... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...devotional energy is often found to languish. Perhaps this sense is included in the figure as used by Job, " My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand." The bow is . a delicate, though a primitive weapon. Too much tension makes it unelastic ; and the field... | |
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And they waited for me as for the rain ; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 
