| Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - 1839 - 410 pages
...LECTURE IX. ON ".oil, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS. JOB xxxviii. 2, 8. Who it this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge ? Gird up now thy loins like a man : for I will demand ofthee, and answer thou Me. LECT. 1. WITH the eyes of the flesh it is impossible to behold — God... | |
| Noah Webster - 1839 - 162 pages
...ask ; in English, demand signifies to claim, to ask with authority. When God says to Job, " Gird up thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me," we acknowledge the propriety of the word ; for God speaks with authority. But when Job says to God,... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1840 - 510 pages
...of the Creator himself. " The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare if thou...understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, or who hath stretched the line upon it, whereupon are the foundations fastened, or who laid the corner-stone,... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - 1840 - 970 pages
...himself. Every evening and every morning, he is disposed to exclaim with Job — " " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare if thou hast understanding, who hath laid the measure thereof, if thou hnowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon it ? Whereupon art the foundations... | |
| Absalom Peters, Selah Burr Treat, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 622 pages
...pride, those difficult questions of the Lord in the book of Job : " Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge ? Gird up now thy loins...and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth 1 Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof,... | |
| Gottfried Daniel Krummacher - 1841 - 300 pages
...length God himself interfered, and said, ' If thou art so wise as to be able to fathom everything, gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.' On which Job however reversed the matter, and said, ' I have uttered that I understood not ; things... | |
| 1842 - 648 pages
...pride, those difficult questions of the Lord in the book of Job : " Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge ? Gird up now thy loins...and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth ? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof,... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...but to call to mind what we are, and we shall see at once the foolishness of murmuring against God. " Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me." Whatever pains we take to prepare, we shall find it hopeless for man to answer God. " Where wast thou... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1842 - 428 pages
...to be girded is the part of a waking soul, hearken to what God says to that righteous .lob 38, man, Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and answer thou Me. This He says also to all Saints, and this He says again to Moses. And He Himself also Ezek. 9, appears... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 pages
...still, and ever will continue to have, not merely a figurative or poetical, but a literal application. Gird up now thy loins like a man : for I will demand...of the earth ? Declare, if thou hast understanding . . . Wliereupon are the foundations thereof fastened ? or who laid the corner-stone thereof; when... | |
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