 | 1821 - 992 pages
...widaws* heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; I was a mother to the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out," chapter xxix. verses 11, 12, 13, :5. 16. We forbear to particularize, or enlarge, but " He that sittelh... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was 1 to the lame ; I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? 'Let me be weighed... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...the king forbade any to compel another to drink, but according to his pleasure. — Esth. i. 8. 326 cause which I knew not, I searched out, : and I brake...the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. — Job xxix. 16, 17. Deut. xix. 18. Neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. — Job xxxiv. 12.... | |
 | 1824 - 720 pages
...species of fraud, oppression, and wrong. Thus, in the character given of himself by Job, he says, " I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the " spoil out of his teeth" It is evident from the busts of Mr Fox, and also from what is known of his life and character, that... | |
 | Robert Robinson - 1824 - 450 pages
...what the qualification for all this ? " I was as eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame ; I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out ;" and therefore, " when my speech dropped upon them, they waited for me as for the rain ; I sat as the comforter... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...but according to his pleasure. — Esth. i. 8. 320 327 cause which I knew not, I searched out : ar,d I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. — Job xxix. 16, 17. Deut. xix. 18. Neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. — Job xxxiv. 12.... | |
 | 1824 - 292 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Did not I weep for him that was in troubleP Was not my soul grieved for the poor? Let me be weighed... | |
 | David Osgood - 1824 - 486 pages
...clothed me ; my judgment was a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out. I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. The stranger did not lodge... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 500 pages
...my judgment was as a robe and a diadem: I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out." Lov. Why Sir, was it possible for any one to do more, to deserve the character of a righteous man,... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 506 pages
...a father to the poor, and the cause that I knew not I searched out ; and I brake a Jame.il. 15, 16. the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth «.' Mercy hath respect also to the spiritual, as well as temporal distresses of mankind. And these... | |
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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 
