 | English literature - 1829 - 430 pages
...compensation for what they endure here, otherwise we might have some colour to expostulate with Job—" Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul? Why died I not from the womb ? Why did I not give up the ghost, when I came... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 564 pages
...prevent me, or why the breasts that I should suck? For now should I have lain still and been quiet Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...the bitter in soul : which long for death, and it cometh not which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave. Why is light given... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 560 pages
...prevent me, or why the breasts that I should suck ? For now should I have lain still and been quiet Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,...the bitter in soul : which long for death, and it cometh not which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave. Why is light given... | |
 | Commercial correspondence - 1831 - 162 pages
...great means of abating our grief. Some, Indeed, have so little comfort in this world that they arc ready to say with Job of .old : " Wherefore is light...unto the bitter in soul; which long for death and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1831 - 634 pages
...to have dealt fairly with his creatures ; and we might have some color to expostulate, with Job ; ' Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul ? Why died I not from the womb ? why did 1 not give up the ghost when I came... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 634 pages
...to have dealt fairly with his creatures ; and we might have some color to expostulate, with Job ; ' Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul ? Why died I not from the womb ? why did 1 not give up the ghost when I came... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...the day perish wherein I was born. Why died I not from the womb ? Why did I not give up the ghost? Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ? which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave. Job iii. 1, 2, 3. 11. 20. 22. Wrath... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 582 pages
..." where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest." " Wherefore," says he, " is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ; who long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ? There the prisoners... | |
 | John Hincks - Sermons, English - 1832 - 554 pages
...exclaim, in the beautiful and pathetic, though too desponding language of the afflicted patriarch, " wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul; who long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton (novelist.) - 1834 - 430 pages
...whereby suspicion may be confirmed. With the Patriarch I may cry aloud, " Wherefore is light given unto him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul ; which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasure." There are others, many others, in this... | |
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 
