| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 582 pages
...spirit : the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. O that I might have my request ! that God would grant me the thing that I long for, even that it would please God to destroy mec!" Terrible, beyond measure, are the hidings of God's face under such circumstances : so at least... | |
| 1833 - 652 pages
...rest : I would hasten my escape from the winds, storm, and tempest: I would not live alway. Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that 1 long for!" But good men, we observe farther, may be led to look forward with desire to the ' termination... | |
| Thomas Searle - 1834 - 284 pages
...bitterness of my soul. O that I had given up the ghost, and that no eye had seen me, Job x. 1, 18. O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me...let loose his hand and cut me off; then should I yet have comfort. I would harden myself in sorrow; let him not spare, Job vi. 8—10. Thou scarest me with... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 pages
...white of an egg 1 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. 8 Oh that I might have my request : and that God would grant me the thing that I long for ! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!... | |
| 1838 - 380 pages
...rebellion against God and his sovereign dispensations ! I have been with Job where he says, " O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I look for! even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me... | |
| Mourner - 1836 - 242 pages
...unite my soul to Thee, for thou only, O Lord, art sufficient for the soul that loveth Thee. O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for. The arrows of the Almighty are in me, the poison whereof drinkcth up my spirit. The terrors of God... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1836 - 924 pages
...white of an egg ? 7 The things thai my soul refused to touch are as my sorroirml meat. 8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me * the thing that I long for ! 9 Етеп ь that it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand, and cut... | |
| 1837 - 852 pages
...white of an egg ? 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. 8 Oh that I : there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheb ! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!... | |
| 1838 - 516 pages
...O remember that my life is wind : mine eye shall no more see good."— Job vii. 2— T. " Oh that I might have my request ; and that God would grant me...that He would let loose his hand, and cut me off?" This has been the prayer of some individuals, but this was not the prayer of our departed friend. She... | |
| 1838 - 1196 pages
...meat* g Oh that I might have my request ; And that God would grant me lo the thing that 1 long for ! 9 Let not God regard it from above, Neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness 10 Then should I yet have comfort ; Yea, I would harden myself in sorrow : let him not spare ; For... | |
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