...not been.; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave, and escaped these calamities. 14. Are not my days few ? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort, and have a little respite, — —15. Before I. go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness,...

...seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Are not my daysfew? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort...shall not return ; even to the land of darkness, and shadow of death ! Let me add, that the excellent lady is informed, by a letter from Mrs. Norton, that...

...witnesses against me, and increases'! thine iudig' nation upon me ; changes and w.ir are against me.' ' Are not my days few ? cease then, and let me alone, that 1 may take comfort a little. 1 have collected those expressions from various parts of the book of Psalrns,...

...blood ? Let me believe in the Lord my God, so shall I be established ; yet may I not observe with Job, are not my days few ? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little. There is ground to hope in the darkest cases : the high and lofty pne who dwells with the humble and...

...me,' may he say, 'in the morning, but I shall not be: 1 am gone whence I shall not return: I am gone to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death. — A land of darkness, and the shadow of death, without any order; and where the light is as darkness:' "But life, my dear...

...which he sometimes desires to be freed by death, occasionally seems to start hack from the tomb : " Let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, before I go whence 1 shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; a land of darkness, as darkness...

...most solemn and impressive idea of death. It struck the mind of Job with peculiar awe and solemnity. " Are not my days few ? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, before 1 go whence / shall not return ." Accordingly, men's dying is represented as " their going to their...

...most solemn and impressive idea of death. It struck the mind of Job with peculiar awe and solemnity. " Are not my days few ? cease then, and let me alone, that 1 may take comfort a little, before 1 go whence I shall not return." Accordingly, men's dying is repre»...

...us, it will produce the same corrupt fruit as often as occasion and temptation offers. " Verse 20. ' Are not my days few ? Cease then and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little.' " From the consideration of the shortness of life, and that much of his time was already gone, .fob...

...them all; you may count them all joy. Other things, Dearly Beloved, are before you. Your mission is to a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without order, and where the light is as darkness. To be far removed from these loved dwellings of Zion, where...