 | Thomas Griffith - 1830 - 518 pages
...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,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him!" The mystery of the Godhead is utterly beyond our comprehension. And I proceed now to assert, That it... | |
 | Francis Geach Crossman - 1830 - 366 pages
...appears to have lost the light of his countenance, and to be heavily cast down: " Behold," says he, " I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." The disciple is out of heart with the habitation where the Lord is not. Like Lot, "he is vexed with... | |
 | Rev. John BARR (of Glasgow.) - 1831 - 348 pages
...hid his face from them. Job, in anguish of spirit, exclaims, " O that I knew where I might find him ! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." § David, in deep distress of soul, mournfully cries out, " Cast me not away from thy presence ; and... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1905 - 372 pages
...and many modern Easterns do the same. In this connection Job xxiii, 8, 9, RV, calls for attention: " Behold, I go forward, but He is not there ; And backward,...Himself on the right hand that I cannot see Him." The cardinal points are almost certainly intended in this passage, and they are so rendered in both... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch - 1974 - 280 pages
...shall 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,...I cannot perceive Him: on the left hand, where He does work, but I cannot behold Him: He hideth Himself on die right hand, diat I cannot see Him.' No,... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pages
...from my judge. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Bildad 2... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1964 - 324 pages
...cannot override them. Reason, baffled in its quest for God, has to utter job's pathetic confession— Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward,...when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold (Job 23:8,9). But faith, grasping the unseen, beholds God and utters its jubilant declaration: I have... | |
 | Reuben Archer Torrey, Charles L. Feinberg - 760 pages
...indispensable. We must know God. But where is he ? "Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! . . . Behold I go forward but he is not there, and backward...cannot behold him ; he hideth himself on the right hand so that I cannot see him!" (Job 23:3, 8, 9). The horizons recede as we approach them, and the darkness... | |
 | 1920 - 642 pages
...in fastings often." Again, he quotes from Job: "0, that I knew where I might find Him !" says Job. "Behold I go forward, but He is not there; and backward,...I cannot perceive Him, on the left hand, where He does His work, but I cannot behold Him; He hideth Himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...to God. But who is the God that I address? Behold, I go forward, and he is not there, and backwards, but I cannot perceive him; on the left hand where...hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see him.1 It is Manuscript dated August 18, 1830, at Brookline. Preached three times: August 2.9, 1830,... | |
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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... 
