 | Joseph Caryl - 1824 - 282 pages
...his service. " Here follows two things, more connected with the question, What is man? " Verse 1 8. ' And that thou shouldest visit him every morning and try him every moment?' " To visit, signifies to show mercy, refresh, deliver, &c. God is as careful to correct as to feed... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...unaccountably vast and high, that upon consideration thereof worthily might Job and the Psalmist exclaim ; " What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him ? and that thou shouldest set thy heart upon him ? Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ? or the son of man, that... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 588 pages
...expostulation. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him thus ; that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him; that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment^. But supposing the trials we undergo should not improve our virtues at all, yet they must be deemed... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 584 pages
...pardon of sin, after signal tokens and pledges of it, and of the love of God therein; Job vii. 17, 18. 'What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, and...visit him every morning, and try him every moment?' What were the considerations that cast him into this admiration of the care and love of God, is expressed,... | |
 | 1874 - 352 pages
...the mercy of God in revealing Himself as mighty to save one so unworthy, those words come uppermost, "What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon Him ?" Thus, beloved, have we seen that God's way of saving sinners is very different to man's calculation... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...thou shouldest magnify him? and j^.t' HC£ that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him ? "• *• 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle ? 20 I have... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1827 - 288 pages
...the worthlessness and wickedness of the creature. In deep astonishment we may ask with one of old, " What is man that thou shouldest magnify him ? and that thou shouldest SET THINE HEART upon him ?" Job vii, 17. In a word, what is the apparent reason why God hath so LOVED the world ? Strange as... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1827 - 384 pages
...view and notice. Here we may with wonder and astonishment break forth with devout rapture, saying, " What is man that thou shouldest magnify him ? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?" God from everlasting set his heart, 'fixed his love, and employed his thoughts, upon the elect sons... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pages
...my life. 16 I loathe it ; I would not live alway : lei ne alone ; for my days art vanity. I? What it $0 bean upon him 18 And tlwt tliini shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment ? I How... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...pride put him upon revenge and blood, and that proved his ruin. — Esth. iii. 5, 6. v. 5. 9, &c. vii. What is man that thou shouldest magnify him ? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him ? — Job vii. 17. Ps. cxliv. 3. xc. 5, 6. For vain (or empty) man would be wise ; though man be born... | |
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What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 
