| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...Whatever pains we take to prepare, we shall find it hopeless for man to answer God. " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare, if thou hast understanding." How are we here at once convinced of ignorance ! How are we made to feel that we are but of yesterday,... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth - 1842 - 360 pages
...controversy with the doubting and complaining, but selfjustifying sufferer. " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon... | |
| John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 pages
...the Creator himself. ' The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 pages
...up now thy loins like a man : for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me." Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare, if thou hast understanding . . . Wliereupon are the foundations thereof fastened ? or who laid the corner-stone thereof; when... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1843 - 546 pages
...Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare, if thou hast understanding. ' " The Rover gazed long and silently on the flushed countenance of the speaker. Bending his face in... | |
| 1864 - 940 pages
...It teaches the general ignorance of man, and his ignorance after discovery : " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon... | |
| 1844 - 498 pages
...referred to on this point — a passage of unequalled sublimity, ch. 38 : 4-11 — Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knoweet ? Or who hath stretched the line upon it 1 Whereupon... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth - 1844 - 306 pages
...controversy with the doubting and complaining, but self-justifying sufferer. " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon it ? Whereupon... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 pages
...Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding ? Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? whereupon... | |
| 1846 - 698 pages
...sacred writings' we find music distinctly alluded to as coeval with creation. ' 4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare, if thou hast understanding. ' ' 5. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowcst • or who hath stretched the line upon... | |
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