 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 302 pages
...sometimes left to adopt the language of Job, and say, of God. the source of all his former joys, (t Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him ; on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I... | |
 | 1817 - 366 pages
...us, because he is concealed from us. ' О that I knew where I might find him !' says Job. 'Behold 1 go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand where he does work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand that I... | |
 | William Barlass, Peter Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 688 pages
...Job's case, when he cried, " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat ! Behold, I go forward, but he is .not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot .behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - Christian education - 1818 - 248 pages
...his complaint — Oh that I knew where I might find my Redeemer! that I might come even to his seat! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right "hand, that... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 594 pages
...extreme depression. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! Behold, 1 go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I... | |
 | 1818 - 960 pages
...me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should 1 be delivered for ever from my judge. 8 for "The American Bible Society" 1 cannot perceive him : 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth... | |
 | Devotional exercises - 1819 - 286 pages
...make my case more desperate by your repeated insinuations. 4. Oh that 1 knew where. 1 might find God ! behold I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward but 1 cannot perceive him. On the left hand where he doth work, but 1 cannot behold him. 5. I would order... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...forbear expressing himself in these lamentable terms, — " Oh that I knew where I might find him ! Behold I go forward, but he is not there : and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand that I... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1837 - 552 pages
...to be driven from the coasts. You will feel after him, but cannot find him. "Behold," you will say, "I go forward but he is not there, and backward but I cannot perceive him, on the left hand where he doth work, but 1 cannot behold him; he hidcth himself on the right hand that 1 cannot... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...forbear expressing himself in these lamentable terms, — " Oh that I knew where I might find him ! Behold I go forward, but he is not there : and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him : on tb,» left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth... | |
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