| Daniel Bellamy - 1789 - 512 pages
...profe, and is more free, if we may be indulged the expreffion, for being confined to numbers. VERSE III. LET THE DAY PERISH WHEREIN I WAS BORN, AND THE NIGHT IN WHICH IT WAS SAID, THERE IS A MAN-CHILD CONCEIVED. THOUGH we have above aflerted, .hat this long, and direful imprecation of Job... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 pages
...bitter susceptibility must he have had of his desolate condition, when he thus spoke of his birthday: " Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night...which it was said, There is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above. — As for that night, let darkness seize... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1803 - 302 pages
...subject, but CHAP. dismiss it in the words of the holy and reigned. descendant of xx> Nahor, " Let diat day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it; .let darkness and the shadow of death stain it ; let a: cloud dwell upon it ; let the blackness of... | |
| 1879 - 592 pages
...and Ecclesiastes. Job may be pronounced the first Pessimist when he cursed the day of his birth. ' Let ' the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which ' was said, There is a man child conceived.' . . . ' Man that is ' born of a woman is of few days and... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 pages
...had used to be a day of joy, but now he 2 3 -wished he had never been born. And Job spake and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night...which] it was said, There is a man child conceived ; /«• -wishes it might be 4 forgotten) as if it never had Ьссл. Let that day be darkness, a... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pages
...lie a day of joy, but nov> he f 3 wished he had never been born. And Job spake ant said, Let the Jay perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived ; hewishesit might be thick horrible darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither S let the... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...' ease of dtuth. A FTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. .2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night...it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 6 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it ; let ^ cloud dwell upon it ; let the blackness of... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 268 pages
...witness it that has ever dropped a tear ; let no ear hear it that is not deaf to the voice of nature ; " let that day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it ; let it not be joined to the days of the year ; let it not come into the number of the months ! "... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...rest and" sustenance. pitiful complaint of his misery, weakly cursed the day wherein he was born. III. 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night tierein, &c. i'ould to God, that day had never come, wherein so wretched a ma, as I, was born ; and... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...rest and sustenance. pitiful complaint of his misery, weakly cursed the day wherein he was born. HI. 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein, &'c. Would to God, that day had never come, wherein so wretched a man, as I, was born ; and... | |
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