 | George Bush - Bible - 1839 - 738 pages
...the chosen symbol of prosperity, a beautiful instance of which occurs in the complaint of Job: "Oh . ( when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness." When the ten... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1839 - 516 pages
...formerly, it is possible that these words of Job might have a reference to it : " Oh, that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shone upon mine head," (when I returned prosperous from expeditions against the enemies... | |
 | Matthew Richey - Clergy - 1839 - 394 pages
...little comfort in duties lately. O my leanness ! my leanness ! Just reason have I to complain. Oh ! that I were as in months past, as in the days when tne candle of the Lord shone upon me, and every day brought fresh joys ! ' Light is sown for the righteous,... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1839 - 516 pages
...had passed my heart ; God hath let me go, and I am fallen. ' Oh !' thought I, ' that it was with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.' " Then again, being loth and unwilling to perish, I began to compare my sin with others, to see if... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...the Remembrance of Former Prosperity. — BIBLE. 1 MOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 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 ; as I was in... | |
 | Walter Stewart Harris - Biblia - 1917 - 372 pages
...thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. Job 29: 1, 2, 3. Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 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 [darkness —... | |
 | George Hodges - Bible - 1918 - 382 pages
...he recalls the departed happiness of the days when his fellow-citizens honored him as a Wise Man. 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 ; As I was in... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Christianity - 1918 - 368 pages
...their vanished years ? With Job they may express their yearnings in some such terms as these : " Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when His candle shined upon me, and when by His light I walked through darkness ; as I was in the... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - Bible - 1924 - 748 pages
...PBOSPEBITY. — V. 1. Moreover, Job continued his parable, hie proverbial sayings, and said, v. 2. Oh, 20, 0 ; also 28, 30. V. 0. sighing for the happy condition of that period of his life which now seems to belong to the remote... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - Bible - 1924 - 752 pages
...PROSPERITY. — V. 1. Moreover, Job continued his parable, his proverbial sayings, and said, v. 2. Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, sighing for the happy condition of that period of his life which now seems to belong to the remote... | |
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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... 
