 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 sider
...the attempts of his impotent malice : Job ii. 3. Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in all the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil ? and still he holdeth fast his integrity ; yea, although thou movest... | |
 | 1809 - 220 sider
...that feared God and eschewed evil. And in another passage God himself is represented as calling Job a perfect and an upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. Now had Adam's guilt been so deeply infused into his posterity as to produce a continual aversion to... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1810 - 540 sider
...required ? Look at Job, that illustriously pious character, to whom the Lord himself bore testimony, that there was none like him in all the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who feared 342 Consolation, to the jlfflicted. God, and eschewed evil. See how strikingly his case... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 sider
...kingdom of God was sure to Job by the testimony of God himself. God had borne witness to Job that he was a perfect and an upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil, and that there was none like him in all the earth, Now, according to this testimony, he had a right... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 758 sider
...will be for your advantage. " My wife and I give our humble service to you and your worthy spouse. 1 pray God comfort you both. I am, upon your account,...you know, he lost not only all his great riches, but ajl his children too by violent deaths (which, blessed be God ! you now enjoy safe). He lost his health... | |
 | 1850 - 698 sider
...without spiritual loss. But the heart-searching God has portrayed the character of Job : "There is none like him in all the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and eschewcth evil." Here, then, was a fit person to show forth the power of religion,... | |
 | 1876 - 1204 sider
...Scarcely less remarkable is the account given in 1 Kings xxii. 1922; though the former instance concerns "a perfect and an upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil," while the latter has to do with an ungodly king. The prophet says, " I saw the Lord sitting on His... | |
 | 1823 - 622 sider
...contemplate his piety, his suffering, his patient submission. As to his piety, we are told, that he was " a perfect and an upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil." It is said he was a perfect man ; but it is evident this cannot be understood absolutely, for he says... | |
 | 1827 - 854 sider
...distinguished for his amiable and charitable conduct ; and though he was described by the Almighty himself as " a perfect and an upright man, one that feared God and eschewed evil ; " yet, when he viewed the infinite .Majesty of God, and his almighty Power and Wisdom, as displayed in all... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 568 sider
...in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." Of Job, God said, " There was none like him in the earth ; a perfect and an upright man ; one that feared God, and eschewed evil." This perfect and upright man said to his Maker, " Behold I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will... | |
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Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in all the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil ? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, dost Job fear God for nought? 
