| Bourne Hall Draper - 1831 - 296 trang
...customs of the East, as they throw so much light on Scripture !" CLIMATE. " NOTICE Gen. xxxi. 40. ' In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night.' This is the complaint of Jacob. With us, the days and nights bear a considerable resemblance to each... | |
| 1832 - 440 trang
...strong terms the occasional sufferings of the shepherd in the discharge of this part of his duty — " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes*." WANT OF WATER. The occasional suffering from drought has been... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 trang
...served thee, and how thy cattle their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night : and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Ge. xxxi. 38. 40. 27 Favour in thine eyes.] See chap, xviii.... | |
| 1832 - 618 trang
...required to be watched by day and by night, under the open sky. Thus Jacob describes his service : — " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." So also the shepherds were watching their flocks by night,... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 trang
...loss of it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. Thus I was, l venture the people repent when they see war, and they ret and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen... | |
| 1834 - 274 trang
...loss of it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from THEIR COVENANT AND SEPARATION. mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 trang
...chase, always describe them as killing the bucks. Jacob had not eaten the rams of the flock. 40. — " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night." Does a master reprove his servant for being idle, he will ask, " What can I do ? the heat eats me up... | |
| John Kitto - 1835 - 344 trang
...sensible to enable us to comprehend the full force of the complaint which Jacob made to Laban — ' In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night.'" U. 0. So much for the heat: now for the cold. Observe in the map the town of Tabreez in the north of... | |
| Edward Greswell - 1835 - 526 trang
...as his day's work was ended, and ere the sun was yet gone down1. k Cf. Gen. xxxi. 40 : Thus 1 was : in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night. 1 Leviticus xix. 13 : The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 652 trang
...chase, always describe them as killing the bucks. Jacob had not eaten the rams of the flock. 40. — " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night." Does a master reprove his servant for being idle, he will ask, " What can I do ? the heat eats me up... | |
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