 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and...  Miscellaneous Works - Page 43by Eliphalet Nott - 1810 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 376 pages
...prepared my seat in the street, the young men saw me and hid themselves : and the aged rose and stood up. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. They waited lor me as for the rain,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 478 pages
...the esteem and good-will of all who know him, he sees blessings multiplied round him, on every side. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it SERMON gave witness to me : Because I delivered the v poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...children were about me: When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil. ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1840 - 644 pages
...his seed is blessed." Job was a truly liberal man, for he says in defence, against his accusers, " When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that was ready to perish came upon me;... | |
 | Robert Balfour - 1819 - 228 pages
...Apostle' a prayer far the Colouiani, i. 9—13. and by Fttcr, 2 1>. i. 2.— IS. ver. 11 — 14. " When the ear heard me, then it " blessed me ; and...when the eye saw me, it gave " witness to me, because I delivered the poor " that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had " none to help him. The blessing... | |
 | William Bengo'. Collyer - 1819 - 82 pages
...species.-f* Of all modern philanthropists, I think none had stronger ground for saying, with Job, ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...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 ; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 540 pages
...the esteem and good- will of all who know him, he sees blessings multiplied round him, on every side. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of... | |
 | 1827 - 304 pages
..."it is more blessed to give than to receive !" He can adopt the language of the once prosperous Job : "When the ear heard me then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poolthat cried, and the fatherless and him that had none to help him. The blessing... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 pages
...the esteem and good-will of all who know him, he sees blessings multiplied round him, on every side. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of... | |
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