...O that I were as in months past, as in iho days when God preserved me ; when 1 1 is candle Miini.'J upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was npon my to brnmcle ; when the Almighty...

...finer picture of a charitable and goodnatured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out nvers of oil. ' When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave...

...pavilion.d May not these serve to explain the words of Job, an Arab emir or chief, when he says,e " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ?" alluding to the lamps which hung around his tent in his days of prosperity, and burnt all night,...

...deficiency, and partly with despair, and partly with desire, they exclaim, " O that I were as in months pnst, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...and when by his light I walked through darkness.'" (Job xxix. 2.) Those who make these complaints, have doubtless neglected, or hastily performed, their...

...apparition was present to his mind, when he put the following passage into the mouth of his hero. Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when hisjiery lamp shined upon my head, and when by his light / walked through darkness : as I was in the...

...wen God preserved me : When his candle shincd upon my head, and when by his b'ght I walked ttrrogh darkness : When the Almighty was yet with me; when my children were about me: XVhen I ^ed my steps with butter, and the rock poured foe out rivers of oil. ' When the ear heard me,...

...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...about me: when I washed my steps with butter, and the rocks poured me out rivers of oil. " When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw...

...expressed himself, when he was in his deep troubles of spirit : << Oh that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...and when by his light I walked through darkness." Job xxix. 3. Where it is most apparent, that Job attributes his salvation from the darkness, (which...

...passages betwixt me and heaven there ; and say, with Job, chap. xxix. •• 0 that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, when by his light I walked through darkness, when the Almighty was yet with me, when I put on righteousness,...

...vain he contrasts his fallen state with the days when the light of God shined on his tabernacle. " When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me — when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me. Because I delivered...