The Book of Job: A Translation from the Original Hebrew on the Basis of the Common and Earlier English Versions with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes for the English ReaderAmerican Bible Union, 1856 - 85 pages |
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... passes into a higher stage of faith . Those agoniz- ing questionings of the love and truth and justice of God , those moments of wild rebellion against his providence , which silently surge and ebb in such a conflict , are here ...
... passes into a higher stage of faith . Those agoniz- ing questionings of the love and truth and justice of God , those moments of wild rebellion against his providence , which silently surge and ebb in such a conflict , are here ...
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... passes away with them , and is known no more . - By cord ( in the margin ) , some ground . When this is torn away from its fastenings , the tent is thrown down ; an emblem of the dissolution of the body , similar to that in 2 Cor . 5 ...
... passes away with them , and is known no more . - By cord ( in the margin ) , some ground . When this is torn away from its fastenings , the tent is thrown down ; an emblem of the dissolution of the body , similar to that in 2 Cor . 5 ...
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... pass away : as the valley - brooks , they pass away that become turbid , from ice ; 16 the snow hides itself in them . At the time they are poured off , they fail ; 17 when it is hot , they are consumed from their place . The caravans ...
... pass away : as the valley - brooks , they pass away that become turbid , from ice ; 16 the snow hides itself in them . At the time they are poured off , they fail ; 17 when it is hot , they are consumed from their place . The caravans ...
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... passes along , but I do not perceive him . Lo , he seizes the prey ; who shall hinder him ? who will say to him : What doest thou ? God will not turn away his anger ; proud helpers bow beneath it . Should I then answer him , — choose ...
... passes along , but I do not perceive him . Lo , he seizes the prey ; who shall hinder him ? who will say to him : What doest thou ? God will not turn away his anger ; proud helpers bow beneath it . Should I then answer him , — choose ...
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... pass by , and shall apprehend , 10 and call an assembly , who will answer him ? For he , he knows evil men ; 11 and sees iniquity , when he seems not to regard it . without intently observing it . But vain man is void of understanding ...
... pass by , and shall apprehend , 10 and call an assembly , who will answer him ? For he , he knows evil men ; 11 and sees iniquity , when he seems not to regard it . without intently observing it . But vain man is void of understanding ...
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abode affliction Almighty AMERICAN BIBLE UNION animals answered Job assertion Barachel beasts behold Bildad blessed book of Job breath cast clouds compare ch Compare Deut darkness death death-shade destruction divine government dost thou dust dwell earth Elihu Eliphaz evil expression eyes Ezek fear flesh God's gold guilt Hast thou heart heavens Hebrew hence hope human Infinite iniquity innocence Jehovah Job's judge justice Keturah light MARGINAL TRANSLATIONS meaning meant mouth Nahor namely nature night Old Testament ostrich patriarchal age perish Pleiads prey prosperity Prov rain reference regard righteous Satan Second member sense sentiment servant shalt Shuhite skin sons soul speak spirit strength suffering terrors thee things thou hast thou shouldst three friends thy hand thyself tion TRANSLATIONS AND READINGS truth turn under-world understanding unto verse wealth wicked Wilt thou wisdom womb words wrong Zophar
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Page 34 - My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death ; Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place!
Page 17 - Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Page 85 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Page 42 - Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 5 - There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Page 12 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 5 - And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all : for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.
Page 67 - Elihu saith, accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor ; for they are all the work of his hands.
Page 49 - DOMINION and fear are with him ; he maketh peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
Page 65 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit ; I have found a ransom.