...mysterious Godhead ? " Who can by searching find out God? who can find out the Almighty to perfection ?"—" Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him!" The mystery of the Godhead is utterly beyond our comprehension. And I proceed now to assert, That it...

...appears to have lost the light of his countenance, and to be heavily cast down: " Behold," says he, " I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." The disciple is out of heart with the habitation where the Lord is not. Like Lot, "he is vexed with...

...hid his face from them. Job, in anguish of spirit, exclaims, " O that I knew where I might find him ! Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." § David, in deep distress of soul, mournfully cries out, " Cast me not away from thy presence ; and...

...He saw Jeremiah in the dungeon, and Daniel in the lions' den. My circumstances are perplexing — " I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him — But he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. The eyes...

...find him, that I might come even to his seat!—Behold I go forward but he is not there; and backwards but I cannot perce.ive him: on the left hand where...himself on the right hand that I cannot see him." Job xxiii. 3—9. Who shall give hope to this distressed soul ? That hope on which faith can legitimately...

...go forward, but he is not ' there ; and backward, but I cannot ' perceive him : on the left hand, 1 where he doth work, but I cannot ' behold him ; he...hideth himself on ' the right hand, that I cannot see ' him."r It is reasonable to suppose, that His glory, concealed from us, is in other worlds peculiarly...

...the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit. My soul is weary of my life. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. David must have known much of this feeling, or we should not have found him inquiring twice in the...

...trying condition. He is restless; he is after God in every direction — No quarter is unexplored : " Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." The righteous are " the generation of them that seek him." But they do not seek him whose " strength...

...true believer's faith is more precious than gold. The excellent sayings of Job came {into my mind, "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward,...himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Job. xxiii. 8, 9. And then in verse the 10th, he like a man in the true faith, saith, " The Lord knoweth...

...he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : On the left hand, where he doth xvork, but I cannot behold him : He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him." Job. xxiii. g, 9. And then in verse the 10th, he like a man in the true faith, saith, " The Lord knoweth...