...face; and now he languishes and mourns, and is ready to despond. " O that [ were as in months past, when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness!" " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat, I would order my cause...

...commencement of the twenty-ninth chapter, is beautifully elucidated by reference to eastern customs. " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shincd upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness." For " candle " our author would...

...himself of his farmer firosfifrity mid honour. MOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that 1 h-lehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and co ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ; 4 As 1 was...

...care ! You would then give a greater regard to my words, than you do now in my misfortune ; Ver. 3. When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness :] Which has lett me nothing but only wishes, that he would restore me those...

...a finer picture of a charitable and good-natured m>- than is to be met with in any other author. ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...walked through darkness: When the Almighty was yet * Matt. xxv. 31. £7 »t.qq. •\ The epitaph alluded to is (or was) in St. George's Church at Doncaster...

...goodness, as the greatest sublunary loss. PLATE XIV. JOB XXIX. 1—22. Job continued his parable, and said, Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days...upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkH 2 ness; as I was in the days of my youth, when thfc secret of God was upon ray tabernacle ; when...

...pitiable condition, left without a friend to solace or a benefactor to relieve them, he exclaimed, " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when GOD preserved me. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; because I delivered...

...condition, that he had been furrounded with a circle of children : " Oh, that I were as in months «e paft, when the ALMIGHTY was yet with " me ; when my children 'were about me"* The fentiment is exquifitely tender; he could not bear to dwell on it.J In this principle, that children...

...a finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...Almighty was yet with me : when my children were about me : when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured out rivers of oil. the wido\v's heart to...

...a finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...Almighty was yet with me : when my children were about me : when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured out rivers of oil. ' When the ear heard me,...