 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pagine
...sorrows. " Theyk" (saith he) " say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him." But whatsoever their knowledge is, it is, sure, an accursed knowledge,... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - 1699 - 226 pagine
...of the duty. If God does not answer us, naturally we cast off the duty, and say with those in Job, What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should ire have, if we pray to him, Job 21. 1.5. They pray not out of conscience of the command, but... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pagine
...cords from us ;" they say unto God, " Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should we have if we pray unto him?" Job xxi. 15. All natural men are, like the prodigal, men of the... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1804 - 372 pagine
...themselves to be strangers to God, and at enmity with him, and yet have learned the unhappy art of saying, " What is the Almighty " that we should serve him, and what profit should " we have if we pray unto him ?" And no less miserable is the situation of those, who build... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pagine
...consequence of this, they say unto God, Depart from us ; for we de15 sire not the knowledge of thy ways. What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him ? this is in effect their language, they think they oiue him no... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pagine
...arise and call upon thy God. CCIII. Offirayerlessfiersonsiorofnotfiraying. Job xxi. 15. The wicked say, what is the Almighty that we should serve him ? and what profit shall we have if we pray unto him '. Mai. iii. 14. xxxvi. 13. Hypocrites cry not when he bindeth them. Ps. x. 4. The wicked through the... | |
 | 1808 - 308 pagine
...say unto God, depart from us, for me desire not " the knowledge of thy ways; what is the Almigh" ty, that we should serve him ? and what profit shall " we have, if we pray unto him * ? Yet can take " the Timbrel and the Harp, and rejoice at the sound " of the Organ." When, therefore,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 520 pagine
...of. The language of their hearts is, " Who is the Lord, that I Should obey his voice ?" Exod. v. 2. " What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should we have if we pray unto him ?'" Job. xxi. 15. They count him worthy neither to be loved nor... | |
 | William Ettrick - 1810 - 608 pagine
...superstitious fools adore. So Job represents the atheistical impiety of prospering s,nners : — " What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit shall we have, if we pray unto him J"— Job xxi. 15. don. " The Lord knoweth both how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to... | |
 | Thomas Williams - 1810 - 244 pagine
...water ? Do we not say unto God, " Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways ? Who is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit shall we have if we pray unto him ?" Do we not possess the carnal mind, which is enmity against God ? for it is not subject to the law... | |
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They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us ; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray... 
