...profe, and is more free, if we may be indulged the expreffion, for being confined to numbers. VERSE III. LET THE DAY PERISH WHEREIN I WAS BORN, AND THE NIGHT IN WHICH IT WAS SAID, THERE IS A MAN-CHILD CONCEIVED. THOUGH we have above aflerted, .hat this long, and direful imprecation of Job...

...bitter susceptibility must he have had of his desolate condition, when he thus spoke of his birthday: " Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night...day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above. — As for that night, let darkness seize upon it ; let it not be joined unto the days of the year....

...subject, but CHAP. dismiss it in the words of the holy and reigned. descendant of xx> Nahor, " Let diat day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it; .let darkness and the shadow of death stain it ; let a: cloud dwell upon it ; let the blackness of...

...and Ecclesiastes. Job may be pronounced the first Pessimist when he cursed the day of his birth. ' Let ' the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which ' was said, There is a man child conceived.' . . . ' Man that is ' born of a woman is of few days and...

...had used to be a day of joy, but now he 2 3 -wished he had never been born. And Job spake and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night...which] it was said, There is a man child conceived ; /«• -wishes it might be 4 forgotten) as if it never had Ьссл. Let that day be darkness, a...

...lie a day of joy, but nov> he f 3 wished he had never been born. And Job spake ant said, Let the Jay perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived ; hewishesit might be thick horrible darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither S let the...

...ease of dtuth. A FTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. .2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night...which it was said, There is a man child conceived, 4 Let that day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it....

...witness it that has ever dropped a tear ; let no ear hear it that is not deaf to the voice of nature ; " let that day be darkness ; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it ; let it not be joined to the days of the year ; let it not come into the number of the months ! "...

...night of my birth be never more mentioned, but be quite forgotten, as if it had never been. Ver. 4. Let that day be darkness, let not GOD regard it from above, neither lit the light shine upon it.] Let .that day be turned into night, and not be counted among the days...

...evils of the present life, the disgraceful language used in an unguarded moment by the patriarch Job, " Let the day " perish wherein I was born, and the night in " which it was said there is a man child con-- " ceived." * But the believer, who finds in the promises of God support under the- calamities...