| Laurence Sterne - 1813 - Страниц: 280
...words is just, or the former interpretations be admitted, the reply in the text is equally proper ; — What ! — Shall we ' receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil also ? Are not both alike the dispensations of an all-wise and good Being, who knows and determines... | |
| Edward Berwick - 1819 - Страниц: 458
...see by my delay in writing, that I am not willing to write while things are in those conditions*. But shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive ill? He * 1640, 17 February, Committee appointed to draw up a Charge of Impeachment against the Lord... | |
| 1819 - Страниц: 612
...kind sympathy : but remember, my child, it comes from the same source whence all our blessings flow. ' Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil ?' Shall I, whose path through life has hitherto been so smooth and even, murmur that now, when... | |
| Rowland Freeman - 1821 - Страниц: 846
...ready to say-—" What good will my life give me ?" — yet I now humbly kiss the rod and say — " Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil V — " Not my will but thy will be done :O Lord I" — " It is good for me that I have been afflicted... | |
| Rowland Freeman - 1821 - Страниц: 450
...ready to say — " What good will my life give me ?" — yet I now humbly kiss the rod and say — " Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil?" — "Not my will but thy will be done O Lord !" — " It is good for me that I have been afflicted... | |
| John William Cunningham - 1823 - Страниц: 378
...;" it is said, " he took a potsherd to scrape himself;" and " sat down among the ashes," and said, " Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil?" At this period, three of his friends — Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar — come to him. It was... | |
| 1824 - Страниц: 542
...greatest. There is a secret in these words which none but afflicted be- • lievers can understand : " Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil?'' Job. ii. 10. Poh ! what affectation ! No, it is not. I am not so senseless as to love pain... | |
| John Kitto - 1825 - Страниц: 244
...his justice and his mercy ; and dare to arraign Infinitude at the tribunal of a finite capacity ? " Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil ?" exclaimed the pious Job, when he had fallen from the height of prosperity and happiness, into... | |
| Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1827 - Страниц: 256
...comforts of our conditions, that we may bear the afflictions of it more patiently ; reasoning with Job, " shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil?" What should we not fail to join with our meditations on his past and present mercies ? The firm... | |
| James Cossar Ewart - 1830 - Страниц: 494
...Let us curse God and die. But Job said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What ? shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil ? By Christian patience and faith did Mr. Hanway proceed in his dangerous travels, at a time when... | |
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