...we would come to his seat, and order our cause before him ; how vain the attempt ! Behold, said one, 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...

...mysterious Godhead ? " Who can by searching find out God? who can find out the Almighty to perfection ?"—" 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...

...; but they have to walk in darkness and find no light. They are taught to enter into the experience of Job, " Behold I go forward, but he is not there," and to know what it is to come up to the house of the Lord and then find no comfort ; to enter their closet...

...he enter with thee into judgement?' (Job 22: 3-4), and the bewildered and much put-upon Job replies: 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...

...like him had cried: "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 can perceive him: on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the...

...know the utter depravity of their own hearts, to be painfully aware of an absent God, to say, with Job: "Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive Him:" and, oh, how painfully, as you feel and fear He will be silent, and is silent,...

...even therefore mount upward, in acknowledgment of the God who orders it. I will no longer complain, Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him; on the Left-hand, where 50 He doth work, but I cannot behold Him; He hideth himself...

...imperturbable felicity ? ' Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat ! But, 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...

...is admitted to "come even to His seat" (Job 23:3). Of the want of which he complains, while he says, "Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot see Him; on the left hand, where He works, but I cannot behold Him. He hides Himself on the...

...in me. There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. 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...