...29Sth chapters: — "Even to-day is my complaint bitter ; my stroke is heavier than my groaning. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." It is not likely that mere bodily affliction would have led him thus to complain ; but though connected...

...strong and ardent aspirations of the heaven-bom soul ? We find, likewise, Job longing for communion with God ; "Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." xxiii. 3, 4. In reference to spiritual enlargement, are Elihu's words to Job ; " Even so would he have...

...excess of grief, he uttered these emphatical words, O that I know where I might find God II would go even to his seat. I would order my cause before him,...arguments. I would know the words which he would answer met and understand what he would say unto me, chap. xiii. 3 — 5. Order this cause, mortals, prepare...

...of a suffering saint, seems now to have been denied to Job : for he says, ver. 3 and 4, " Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." And ver. 8, 9, " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him...

...excess of grief, he uttered these emphatical words, O that I knew where I might find God ! 1 would go even to his seat. I would order my cause before him,...with arguments. I would know the words which he would anszver me, and understand what he would say unto me, chap, xiii. 3 — 5. Order this cause, mortals,...

...and not " fear him. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I " desire to reason with God. O that I knew where I " might find him ! that I might come...cause before him, and fill my mouth " with arguments. Behold my desire is that the Almighty 11 would answer me."} Elihu justly reproves Job for thus justifying...

...SERMON XXI. Nearness to God the saint's desire and hafipinegg. JOB. xxiii. 3, 4. Oh, that I knew where 1 might find him, that I might come even to his seat...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. Page 281 SERMON XXII. Importance of hearing Christ's -voice immediately. HEB. iii. 15. To day if ye...

...language is N ** . :. with Job, " Oh, that I knew where I might find him*, that I might come, even unto his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with ai%|» merits." They desire not to be freed from their obligations, to attend constantly upon the public...

...past, when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness!" " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments!" Job xxiii. 3, 4. xxix. 2, 3. " Once I walked in the light of his countenance, and found him to be a...

...0 that I knew -where I might find him! that I might come even to Us seat: (that is, this throne). / would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. But cannot God easily Serm. III.] the Throne of Grace. 67 stop this man's mouth, and bring arguments...