 | Joseph Ivimey - Antislavery movements - 1832 - 96 pages
...deeply-afflicted Job, " then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless,...the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth." * Nor can I imagine, after the proofs which I have experienced of your friendship, that the freedom... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...side of injustice, the more determinately he set himself to reduce it within its proper bounds : " he brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth:" and the effecting of this he accounted more honourable than any ornaments, either of magisterial robes,... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christian life - 1832 - 450 pages
...to the lame, and a father to the poor; that the cause which you knew not, you searched out; that you brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth; and still, as the law does not allow the soul to be redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - Bible - 1832 - 612 pages
...: Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will 1 cut off, says the Psalmist, ci. 5. / brake oho the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth, was among the consolations of Job, xxix. 17. Respecting those injured and wounded by slander, the pious... | |
 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him : the blessin^ of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused...and I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoii out of his teeth. Did I not weep for him that was in trouble ? Was not my soul grieved for the... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...I knew not, I searched out. 30 Unto me men gave ear, and waited and kept silence at my counsel. 31 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. *§• 32 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of Godis in my nostrils ; 33 My lips shall... | |
 | Samuel W. Lynd - 1834 - 326 pages
...country, who can stand, and, in the presence of his fellow-,citizens, exclaim, as did the patriarch, ' I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My judgment...the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.' But if we sin against Heaven, and in his sight, the sagacity and moral worth of no statesman can deliver... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...' ' delivered the poor, when he cried, and the fatherless, and him that had no helper ;' that ' he brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.' If this may be thought to relate to Job, as a public magistrate only, there is a direction in the Proverbs... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 732 pages
...attributes and actions of Job. He " was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor. He brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. When the ear heard him, it blessed him, when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him."... | |
 | Thomas Jee - Christianity - 1837 - 96 pages
...the blind ; and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew riot, I searched out. And I brake the Jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. The wise man has well explained the meaning of the last words of Job, where he compares the unfeeling... | |
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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. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a... 
