...ing our hearts with food and ' gladness :"q but yet he retires and conceals himself from our view : " Behold I go forward, but he is not ' there ; and backward, but I cannot ' perceive him : on the left hand, 1 where he doth work, but I cannot ' behold him ; he hideth himself on ' the right hand, that I cannot...

...believer's faith is more precious than gold. The excellent sayings of Job came Unto my mind, "Behold, I 30 forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I...cannot perceive him : On the left hand, where he doth xvork, but I cannot behold him : He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Job....

...mortal paleness on my cheek, But glory In iny soul." NOVEMBER 12. — " Behold, I eo forward, but he IB not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but 1 cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right iuim I, that I cannot. see him." — Job xxiii....

...cruelly with the results of his actual outreach. In verses 8-9 the Hebrew text should be read as follows: "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him; on the left where he works, but I cannot behold him; on the right, where he is concealed, but I cannot see him."...

...to me. 7There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge. ""Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him; 9on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him....

...me. 7 There the righteous mighl dispule wilh him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. he blessing of the bul 1 cannot perceive him: 9 On Ihe left hand, where he doth work, bul I cannol behold him: he hideth...

...have no light, when, like Job of old, "[We] go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but [we] cannot perceive him: on the left hand, where he doth work, but [we] cannot behold him; and he hideth himself on the right hand, that we cannot see him" (Job 23:8,...

...in fastings often." Again, he quotes from Job: "0, that I knew where I might find Him !" says Job. "Behold I go forward, but He is not there; and backward,...I cannot perceive Him, on the left hand, where He does His work, but I cannot behold Him; He hideth Himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him."...

...surely the Thou will do no less than reciprocate. "Oh, that I knew where I might find him," Job cries. "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him; on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him." 34 Pain itself...

...As Job proclaims, "Oh 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." In the book of Psalms the stress is often not on what we know or believe of God, but on seeking, hoping,...