 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 550 pages
...secret duties, or in communion of saints. God's children complain with Job, chap, xxiii. 8, 9, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him," &c. He looks east, west, north, and south, but in vain ; this is strange, that God who is every where... | |
 | William Haslett - 1825 - 224 pages
...placed in circumstances in which his prospects darken every hour. — He is now ready to say with Job, "I go forward but he is not there, and backward but I cannot perceive him — 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come, even to his seat." In this situation how... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...excellence. He says, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come near unto his seat ! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot find him. On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him." Job saw the natural perfections... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 650 pages
...glory; yea, we may seek him, but cannot find him. So Job complains, as we observed before ; ' 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 on the right hand, that I cannot... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 pages
...There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him; on the left hand 1 seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him. But he knows... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pages
...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 on the right hand, that I cannot... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 2006 - 598 pages
...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. FN: Them that honour me, I will honour (1 Sam 2:30). The highest honour we can pay to God is to honour... | |
 | William Guthrie - 2001 - 112 pages
...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 right hand,... | |
 | Guy Parrish - 2002 - 158 pages
...Job cried out in desperation in chapter twenty-three, "Oh that I knew where I might find him! 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 on the right hand, that I cannot... | |
 | Mattá (al-Miskīn) - 2003 - 300 pages
...... I cry to thee and thou dost not heed me. Thou hast turned cruel to me! [italics added] Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him; on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him. (Job 6. 4;... | |
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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 on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when... 
