 | William Dodd - 1848 - 180 trang
...themselves from what would be a happy release from their miserable situation; crying out with Job — " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul? " Contrast this with what man was intended to be. We are told that man was made... | |
 | 1849 - 156 trang
...eager to detain them longer with as, yet the sense of what they enjoy in heaven must be a great mean» of abating our grief. Some, indeed, have so little...misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ; which long fur death and it comelh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures ; which rejoice exceedingly,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1849 - 646 trang
...prolong their life, while the strong are moved down and carried off one after another, Job iii. 20, 21. " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...life unto the bitter in soul ? which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures ?" Compared with Luke rii. 19, 20. "... | |
 | 1849 - 780 trang
...which is not proved by the Bible. One in the word of God says, " Wherefore is 296 AND ZIONS CASKET. 849 ?" Who called for the grave to cover him ? There was the light searching him, hut he did not comprehend... | |
 | 1858 - 682 trang
...stern realities of life — Whilst we blunder on — now and then perversely exclaiming with Job — " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter hi soul t " ANDREW STEINMETZ. THE GENEALOGICAL SUGGESTION. (2°« S. vi. 307.) I consider the suggestion... | |
 | 1850 - 830 trang
...voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there ; and the servant it free from his master. 20 ," or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not ou • 21 Which ( long' for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; 22... | |
 | American Tract Society - 1850 - 518 trang
...words. Since that time she has joined him above. But I murmured against thee, O Lord, and cried, " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ?" Job 3 : 20. MINISTER. Your mind now is at peace, and you have experienced that, although " no chastening... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - 1844 - 660 trang
...digging reached by^this lime close to the gold ye were in quest of.' 8. Though this, that he soys, Which long for death and it cometh not ; and dig for it as for hid treasures, may be taken in another sense also. For in that we cannot perfectly die to the... | |
 | Athanase Coquerel - 1851 - 172 trang
...None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him." (Ps. xlix. 7.) " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ? " (Job iii. 20.) 23. In order to remove in a proper way these contradictions between nature and the... | |
 | George Smalridge (bp. of Bristol.) - 1852 - 602 trang
...Why died I not from the womb ? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly ?. . . . Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul? Doth one who inveighs in this manner against life look upon it as a thing always good and desirable... | |
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 
