 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused 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.  The Theological Works - Page 49by Isaac Barrow - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was 1 to the lame ; I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out. Did I not weep for him that was in trouble, was not my soul... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 582 pages
...of the jaws of the wicked. " 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." Job xxix. 16, 17. Job compares these spoilers to a voracious beast, or mastiff... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing with joy. 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."—Thus, while the righteous man flourishes like a tree planted... | |
 | 1838 - 716 pages
...the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 1 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. I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy." May we partake... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 pages
...caufed the widow's heart to flag with joj-sS/'i was eyes to the blind, and feet was 1 to tbelame : I was a father to the poor ; and the caufe which i knew not, I fearched out." Thus, while the righteous man flourifhes like a tree planted by the rivers of waf.r. he brings forth... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe a,nd a diadem. 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 (int. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pages
...urges in his own vindication, he does not omit this part of his character: " 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, 1 searched out. I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out... | |
 | Samuel Clapham - 1815 - 708 pages
...propriety, of the language employed by the sacred writer in my text, — " I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the " lame — I was a father to the poor." I will beg your patient attention whilst I endeavor to enforce the words of the text. And may the Almighty... | |
 | New York Sunday School Union Society - 1816 - 428 pages
...Wh'tchurch, Joint Secretary of the Union; By THOMAS ROBERTS, AM " I was eyes to the blind, and feet v?as I to the lame I was a father to the poor ; and the cause wh'.'ch I knew not, I searched out." Job xxix. 15,16. " This delineation of character is as extensive... | |
 | Duncan Forbes - 1816 - 388 pages
...righteousness and it clothed me. My ludgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out." Job, chap. 29, ver. Tt S?c, AMONG the many illuftrious characters... | |
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