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... less does it shadow the ways of God with Israel , blessed of old , losing all meanwhile , but about to be blessed once more and far more in the end than in the beginning . B The problem handled in the book is the moral go- INTRODUCTION.
... less does it shadow the ways of God with Israel , blessed of old , losing all meanwhile , but about to be blessed once more and far more in the end than in the beginning . B The problem handled in the book is the moral go- INTRODUCTION.
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... less or more indignation insisting on his integrity ; but while he yearns after God , if he could only get near Him , he complains of His dealings as severe and unpitying . On the third occasion ( chaps . xxii . - xxxi . ) , the ...
... less or more indignation insisting on his integrity ; but while he yearns after God , if he could only get near Him , he complains of His dealings as severe and unpitying . On the third occasion ( chaps . xxii . - xxxi . ) , the ...
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... less than his friends . Their assaults Elihu defends no more than he insinuates hidden evil against Job ; but he reproves the irreverence of his replies , vin- dicates the dealings of God , whether in judgment of man or in discipline of ...
... less than his friends . Their assaults Elihu defends no more than he insinuates hidden evil against Job ; but he reproves the irreverence of his replies , vin- dicates the dealings of God , whether in judgment of man or in discipline of ...
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... less than authentic , as it is the weightiest and earliest witness against their narrow and exclu- sive spirit in respect of all outside themselves . The same principle applies to Melchisedek in Genesis and to Jethro in Exodus and ...
... less than authentic , as it is the weightiest and earliest witness against their narrow and exclu- sive spirit in respect of all outside themselves . The same principle applies to Melchisedek in Genesis and to Jethro in Exodus and ...
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... less completely in his renewed malice . What a comfort to learn in a scene where to all appearance then as now he seems to triumph ! But so it ever is , whatever seems : God has His way , as the end proves unanswerably , and he that ...
... less completely in his renewed malice . What a comfort to learn in a scene where to all appearance then as now he seems to triumph ! But so it ever is , whatever seems : God has His way , as the end proves unanswerably , and he that ...
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Page 8 - THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job ; and that man was perfect, and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household ; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.
Page 3 - And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his army.
Page 13 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept ; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Page 11 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 10 - The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them : and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away ; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword ; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Page 43 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 192 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning : for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Page 28 - Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Page 15 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page 66 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. " That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us...