 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 500 pages
...[God], that I might come even t& his seat. Behold I go fotward, but he is net there ; and badxvard, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand where...hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him f . Could any thing more pathetically express the lamentations of a People who saw the extraordinary... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - Presbyterian Church - 1811 - 550 pages
...where I might find him ! Jlehold Igoforwardf but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot fierceme him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Job xxiii. 3, 8, 9. I see his perfections beaming upon me from all his works, and his providence ever-active... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...present with us, because he is concealed from us. "Oh that I knew where I might fmd 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 work, but 1 cannot behold him ; he hideth himselfon the right hand that I cannot see him." In... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 420 pages
...that he had desired and expected in the days of his adversity. In that dark and gloomy season he said, "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward,...when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold" David gratefully acknowledges, that he had found peculiar benefit from the afflictive hand of God "It... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...under a pressure of perplexity. " Behold, I go forward, but he " is not there, and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him; " on the left hand, where he...when he hath tried me I shall come forth as " gold." You say you see not how it will go with you. But you know " that it shall be well with them that "... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 790 pages
...those affections raised to the highest pitch. He is not indeed to be discerned by any of our senses. " I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat !"* But is he then afar off?... | |
 | Cotton Mather - Natural theology - 1815 - 378 pages
...longer complain, Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but Tcannot perceive him - t on the left hand, where He doth work, but I cannot...hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see Him. No, I am now taught where to meet with Him even at every turn. He knows the way that I take. I cannot... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...judge. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : , 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 1 1 My... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...disordered by adversity, magnified the distress. — Hence the language which follows in this chapter : " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." But there is another and more serious cause of distance, though we know not that it applied to Job in this... | |
 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 306 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,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." But when a Christian is awakened from a decline, and brought to a sense of the remissness and inactivity... | |
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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 cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when... 
