| Daniel Bellamy - 1789 - 512 sider
...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...WHICH IT WAS SAID, THERE IS A MAN-CHILD CONCEIVED. THOUGH we have above aflerted, .hat this long, and direful imprecation of Job is exprefled with a flow... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 sider
...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 in 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,... | |
| 1879 - 592 sider
...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 sider
...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 [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived ; /«• -wishes it might be 4 forgotten) as if it never had Ьссл. Let that... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 sider
...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,... | |
| 1807 - 570 sider
...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 in which it was said, There is a man child conceived, 4 Let that day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither let the... | |
| 1809 - 556 sider
...night of my birth be never more mentioned, but be quite forgotten, as if it had never been. Ver. 4. Let that day be darkness, let not GOD regard it from above, neither lit the light shine upon it.] Let .that day be turned into night, and not be counted among the days... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 sider
...evils of the present life, the disgraceful language used in an unguarded moment by the patriarch Job, " Let the day " perish wherein I was born, and the night in " which it was said there is a man child con-- " ceived." * But the believer, who finds in the promises of God support under the-... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 sider
...that comes in his head. Job spends a whole chapter against his birth-day. "And Job cursed his day. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said. There is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above ; neither let the... | |
| James Meikle - 1811 - 476 sider
...praise of God, with an' exulting breast, talk in an opposite strain : " Let the day prosper wherein 1 was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-child conceived. Let that day be brightness, let God regard it from above, and let the light shine upon it. Let light and the beaming... | |
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