Religion
Job 10:13: Why am I, Lord, at life's sad dose
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Why am I, Lord, at life's sad dose
Unsaved, unhappy, and unclean,
Abandon'd to my inbred foes,
O'erwhelm'd with wretchedness and sin,
A mystery to myself am I,
Nor can into Thy counsel pry:
2 1 know not what my God hath will'd.
To save, or finally depart;
The deep design is still conceal'd,
The love or anger in Thy heart;
Inexplicably dark to me;
But known are all Thy works to Thee.
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Wesley, Charles. “Job 10:13: Why am I, Lord, at life's sad dose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3096/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Job 10:13: Why am I, Lord, at life's sad dose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3096/.
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