 | John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 pages
...though he did not drink butter, made almost as singular a use of it. " O that I were," exclaimed he, " as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me. When I washed my steps with butter, and the rocks poured me out rivers of oil." " These mountains of yours,"... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...to depirt from evil 15 understanding. CHAP. XXIX. OREOVER, Job continued his parM able, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; 4 As I was... | |
 | William Heseltine - Great Britain - 1829 - 250 pages
...affliction by the rod. of His wrath;' yea. that which I was afraid of hath indeed come unto me.' ' Oh ! that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.' For from the sad hour when thou didst depart from me, sorrows came in upon me as the wild breaking... | |
 | James Marsh - Theology - 1830 - 608 pages
...mind, the lost peace of heart ? how passionately dothey cry out with Job in the book of his patience, 0 that I were as in months past as in the days when...preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, when by his light I walked through Darkness ; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of... | |
 | James Marsh - Theology - 1830 - 946 pages
...mind, the lost peace of heart ? how passionately dothey cry out with Job in the book of his patience, O that I were as in months past as in the days when...preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, when by his light I walked through Darkness ; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of... | |
 | 1830 - 586 pages
...spring of painful sensibility, and to her soul says unutterable things. ' Oh ! that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shone upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; as I was in the days of my youth,... | |
 | Rev. John BARR (of Glasgow.) - Christian life - 1831 - 348 pages
...time bereft of this attainment. The holy patriarch Job thus affectingly bemoans his desertion, — " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle sinned upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; as in the days of my youth,... | |
 | James Backhouse - Quakers - 1831 - 400 pages
...of her faith, with adopting the memorable words of the prophet Habakkuk, saying : "' O, that I was as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle slimed upon my head ; and when by his light I walked through darkness : yet Thou, 0 Lord ! knowest... | |
 | Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...to depart from evil is understanding. CHAP. XXIX. MOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 2 e, token God preserved me ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1832 - 656 pages
...clergy. CANDLE — emblem of prosperity, success, joy. "His candle shall be put out," Job xviii. "Othat I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; when his candle shined upon my head ." Job. xxix. CANDLESTICK, or lamp, is sometimes the symbol of government, but frequently of affording... | |
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As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle... 
