 | 1818 - 948 pages
...depart from evil is understanding. CHAP. XXIX. IOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh _ Ɠ݁ 冑 ( Ƨ ܁ ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness ; 4 As 1 was... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - Christian education - 1818 - 248 pages
...than all he deplored the absence of those joyful feelings he had once possessed. " Oh," cried he, " that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; tehen his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I tealked through darkness! (Job xxix.... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...finer picture of a charitable and goodnatured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me : when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness: When the Almighty... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...traveller01. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor" ? Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me0. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, then it gave witness to me... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 440 pages
...This it is that makes me, in the words of my admired exclaimer, very little altered, often repeat: ' O ! that I were as in months past! as in the days when God preserved me! When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness! As I was in the... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1820 - 358 pages
...and enjoyments of life have their full taste and relish. So Job describes the days of his youth, 0 that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me : when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness, as I was in... | |
 | Evangelistic work - 1821 - 270 pages
...darkness and perplexity ; I deplore my unhappy stale, and refleet upon niv departed pleasures. " Oh thai I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his eandle shined upon my head, and wheu by his light I walked through darkness." 6. But ehanges... | |
 | Mary Anne Davis - 1822 - 134 pages
...man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God(g-). Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness (A)! O that... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. 1 On olishing of what the French call a M esprit, ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness : when the Almighty... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 340 pages
...21. O sad change! How sadly may we look back towards our first state, and take up the words of Job, " O that I were as in months past, as in the days of my youth; when the Almighty was yet with me, when I put on righteousness, and it clothed me, when... | |
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OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness... 
