| John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...had to do, cried out, Job 40 : 4, 5, " Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will...answer ; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further." That is, I am silent ; Lord, I have done : I could answer men, but I cannot answer thee ; thou art... | |
| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Apologetics - 1768 - 360 pages
...difcovery of the divine glory and perfection, ch. xl. 4. 5. " Be"• hold, I am vile, what fhall I anfwer thee ? " I will lay mine hand- upon my mouth; "'Once have I fpoken, but I will not an" fwer : yea, twice, but I will proceed no' "• further." And again, ch.... | |
| William Moorhouse - Faith - 1778 - 64 pages
...with felf-loathing, adopt the language of felf-abafed Job, Behold I am 'vile- ! 'what /hall I anfwer thee, I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I fpoken, yea twice, but I will proceed no further, for I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,... | |
| Samuel Ogden - 1780 - 398 pages
...<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SECOND COMMANDMENT. PART III. j JOB xl. 3,4. THEN JOB ANSWERED THE LORD, AND SAID, BEHOLD, I AM VILE; WHAT SHALL I ANSWER THEE? I WILL LAY MINE HAND UPON MY MOUTH. "D KING called upon to give an ac••-* count of certain fums of 'mone7 belonging to the publick,... | |
| Jonathan Dickinson - Apologetics - 1784 - 406 pages
...jhouldft mark iniquity, 0 Lord, vihojhallftand? and with Job, — Behold, I am vile! What jh all I anfwer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I fpoken, but I will not anfwer ; yta twice, but I will proceed no further. — Will not you then fee... | |
| Claude Emmanuel Joseph Pierre marquis de Pastoret - Asia - 1787 - 860 pages
...things and rulest over all things ? " And the answer of the afflicted one is penitent and submissive: "Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer Thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth ! " The theocratic god cannot be bound. His law governs all men, and he administers... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1800 - 620 pages
...difcovery of the divine glory and perfection, ch. xl. 4, 5. " Behold, I am " vile, what ftiall I anfwer thee ? I will lay mine hand " upon my mouth. Once have I fpoken, but I will not " anfwer : yea, twice, but I will proceed no further." — And again, ch. xlii.... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...stayed.' How can we reply to these sublime inquiries, but in the words that follow ? ' Behold, I arn vile, what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.' I have in a former treatise observed to you, that Homer has degraded his Gods into men: these writers... | |
| William Giles - Christian life - 1804 - 280 pages
...of all the mercies, and of •all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant : or, with Job, behold I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth — I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. The language of your heart, my amiable friend, speaks... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...; he that censures his actions, let him answer these questions. 3 4 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken ; but I will not answer : yea, twice ; but I will proceed Ho further. Job acknowledges... | |
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