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Page xvi
... hold on human sympathies in this world of sorrow , few books are better fitted to teach the reader humility , resignation , compassion , and trust in Providence . At the same time it possesses an unusual amount of incidental attractions ...
... hold on human sympathies in this world of sorrow , few books are better fitted to teach the reader humility , resignation , compassion , and trust in Providence . At the same time it possesses an unusual amount of incidental attractions ...
Page xxiv
... holds me up On Nature's awful waste , To drink this last and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste . Go , tell the night that hides thy face , Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race , On earth's sepulchral clod , The darkening universe ...
... holds me up On Nature's awful waste , To drink this last and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste . Go , tell the night that hides thy face , Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race , On earth's sepulchral clod , The darkening universe ...
Page xxix
... hold that suffering is always penal ; wherever the bolt descends , guilt is the attraction . Elihu holds that pain is purgatorial , -intended to reveal secret faults , and restore to the paths of righteousness ; wherever there is gold ...
... hold that suffering is always penal ; wherever the bolt descends , guilt is the attraction . Elihu holds that pain is purgatorial , -intended to reveal secret faults , and restore to the paths of righteousness ; wherever there is gold ...
Page 33
... hold my tongue : And cause me to understand wherein I have erred . How forcible are right words ! But what doth your arguing reprove ? Do ye imagine to reprove words , And the speeches of one that is desperate , which are as wind ? Yea ...
... hold my tongue : And cause me to understand wherein I have erred . How forcible are right words ! But what doth your arguing reprove ? Do ye imagine to reprove words , And the speeches of one that is desperate , which are as wind ? Yea ...
Page 37
... hold it fast , but it shall not endure . He is green before the sun , And his branch shooteth forth in his garden . His roots are wrapped about the heap , And seeth the place of stones . If he destroy him from his place , Then it shall ...
... hold it fast , but it shall not endure . He is green before the sun , And his branch shooteth forth in his garden . His roots are wrapped about the heap , And seeth the place of stones . If he destroy him from his place , Then it shall ...
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affliction afraid Almighty answered the LORD Arcturus Barachel behemoth Behold blessed bones BOOK OF JOB Canst thou Chap clouds cometh courser curse Dalziels darkness desolate doors Dost thou doth dust earth Elihu ELIPHAZ the Temanite evil eyes fatherless fear flesh friends giveth goeth gold grave Hast thou hath hear heart heaven iniquity innocent Jehovah JOB answered Job's JOHN GILBERT judgment knoweth land of Uz leviathan light maketh mighty mocketh morning mouth night o'er ostrich Patriarch peace perish righteous Sabeans seeth servant Job shadow of death shalt thou skin sons sorrow soul speak spirit strength swift ships sword tabernacle thee the secrets thereof thine hand things thou hast thou shalt thou shouldest thy face transgression unto ashes unto Satan unto thee upright voice waters Wherefore whilst Whymper wicked wickedness wild ass Wilt thou wind womb words wrath
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Page 131 - THEN THE LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge ? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; For I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Page 141 - Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood : and where the slain are, there is she.
Page 9 - 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 11 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said i unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil...
Page 13 - And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Page 151 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent In dust and ashes.
Page 28 - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Page 105 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me ; What then shall I do when God riseth up ? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb...
Page 140 - Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Page 32 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.