...and answer thou me,' &c. Alas ! how soon would he nonplus and confound us, and make us say as Job, ' Behold I am vile ! What shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth : once have I spoken, but I will not answer ; yea, twice, but I will proceed...

...strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy bbourlohincî - ^ i 3 If Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 4 sh : is there anything too hard forme? 28 Therefore thu my hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken ; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed...

...filled with the deepest shame and humiliation of heart ? Are you not ready to exclaim with Holy Job, " Behold I am vile : what shall I answer Thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth." " I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." Do not the same Reflections...

...of thy waves be stayed.' How can we reply to these sublime inquiries, but in the words that follow ? 'Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.' I have in a former treatise observed to you•, that Homer has degraded his gods into men : these writers...

...righteous, yet will I not lift up my head ; 1 am full of confusion, therefore see thou mine affliction c. Behold I am vile ; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer ; yea twice, but I will proceed no...

...answered the LORD, and 4 'Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. 5 of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the 1 will proceed no further. 6 IT Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, M(...

...true penitents in Scripture, I have sinned, what shall be done unto thee, 0 thou preserver of men ? Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth, I will abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. For surely it is meet to...

...purposes against sin, by its very falls into sin. " Once have I spoken (he means foolishly, sinfully) but I will not answer : yea twice, but I will proceed no further." Job xl. 5. This made holy David beg of God to be " spared a little, that he might" have time to " recover...

...worse than nothing ; and as such they humble themselves under his mighty hand. This Job did, saying, " Behold I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes," (Job xl. 4. and xlii. 6.) 3....

...before me ?" This appalling address produced the intended effect— Job is humbled, and confesses, " Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee ? I will lay my hand upon my mou:h." " I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee...