...as •we learn from his affecting complaint, when he reviewed the days of his prosperity : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; as in the days of my youth, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my head, when the Almighty was...

...picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. 1 On that ing of what the French call a M esprit, and when by his light I walked through darkness : when the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children...

...doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God(g-). Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God...preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness (A)! O that I had wings like a dove! then would I flee...

...remembrance of former intercourse betwixt me and heaven there, and say with Job, " O 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,...

...feeling that " it is an evil thing and bitter to depart from the living God, and saying, " U that we were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved us , when his candle shone upon our head; and when, by his light, we walked through darkness ; " then...

...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 God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ?" alluding to the lamps which hung around his tent...

...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 God...preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness : When the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children...

...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...

...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 shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness.'" (Job xxix. 2.) Those who make these complaints,...

...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 God preserved me; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness: when the Almighty was yet with me: when my children...