...answered and said, 2 Even to-day w my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that ake glad the city of God, the holy olace of the tabern to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know...

...sensible manifestation of his presence which is ordinarily afforded to tenants of the flesh: "Oh, that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his teat!—Behold I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on...

...The first great question is, Where may I find God? This -was Job's question and wish: Job xxiii. 3. O that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat.' And that this seat was a throne of grace to Job, is evident from ver. 6. This text tells...

...languishing prayer ! The afflicted patriarch, mourning the absence of a gracious God, exclaimed, " O that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to his seat!" — Is this your cry? Then be of good courage, for the light of the Gospel shews you...

...solicitude becoming the occasion of his suit, breaks forth into that beautiful effusion of Job—" Oh, that I knew " where I might find him ! that I might come even to his " seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my " mouth with arguments." And this is...

...despise the chastening of the Lord, he can appropriate the language of the afflicted patriarch; — "O that I knew where I might find him ; that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments :" — "Will he plead...

...ardently desired to draw near to God, and to have clear views of his supreme excellence. He says, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come near unto his seat ! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot find him....

...say with Job, "I go forward but he is not there, and backward but I cannot perceive him — 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come, even to his seat." In this situation how important is a faithful spiritual guide — one who knows how to...

...time, nor shrunk from the effort, required in drawing nigh unto God. When he exclaimed, ' Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to his seal!' he would have gladly gone any where to find God. If ' His seat' had been on the loftiest...

...permit ourselves, in the perplexities and darkness which encompass us, to join in the exclamation — " O that " I knew where I might find him, that I might come " even unto his seat." But when the feebler light, which here permits us but to see as through a glass darkly, shall hereafter...