 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 plucked the spoil out of his teeth.  A new system of short-hand - Page 46by Samuel Richardson (teacher of short-hand.) - 1810Full view - About this book
 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...the widow's heart to sing for joy : I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem : I was eyes to the blind, and...and I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoii out of his teeth. Did I not weep for him that was in trouble ? Was not my soul grieved for the... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...I knew not, I searched out. 30 Unto me men gave ear, and waited and kept silence at my counsel. 31 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. *§• 32 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of Godis in my nostrils ; 33 My lips shall... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...' ' delivered the poor, when he cried, and the fatherless, and him that had no helper ;' that ' he brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.' If this may be thought to relate to Job, as a public magistrate only, there is a direction in the Proverbs... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 732 pages
...attributes and actions of Job. He " was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor. He brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. When the ear heard him, it blessed him, when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him."... | |
 | Thomas Jee - Christianity - 1837 - 96 pages
...the blind ; and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew riot, I searched out. And I brake the Jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. The wise man has well explained the meaning of the last words of Job, where he compares the unfeeling... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 of oxen, 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 19 My root was 'spread... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...of OIL. — I put on righteousness and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. — I brake the jaws of the WICKED, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. — I CHOSE OUT THEIR WAY, and sat chief, and dwelt as a KING in the army."t In these words the writer... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1837 - 518 pages
...Job say, " I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. I brake the jaws of the wicked ; and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. I was a father to the poor ; I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. The blessing of him... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1837 - 740 pages
...species of fraud, oppression, and wrong. Thus, in the character given of himself by Job, he says, ' I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.' " It would be difficult to find a more striking and appropriate example of the simultaneous activity... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 404 pages
...attributes and actions of Job. He " was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor. He brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. When the ear heard him, it blessed him, when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him."... | |
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