{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/084-job-238-9-10","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"084 Job 238 9 10","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1740","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-hymns-misc","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-084-job-238-9-10","passage_ids":["cw-084-job-238-9-10-full"],"word_count":149,"themes_auto":["reign-of-god","works-mercy","works-piety"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-084-job-238-9-10-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-084-job-238-9-10-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-084-job-238-9-10","source_title":"084 Job 238 9 10","source_type":"hymn","year":1740,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Job 23:8, 9, 10 Tho' I groan beneath thy frown, Hence I will not cannot fly; Tho' thy justice cast me down, At thy mercy-seat I ly; Let me here my sentence meet, Let me perish at thy feet! Job xxiii. 8, 9, 10. Forward I now in duties go, But O! My Saviour is not there! Heavy he makes me drive, and slow, Without the chariot-wheels of prayer. I look to former times, and strain The footsteps of my God to trace; Backward I go (but still in vain) To find the tokens of his grace. Surrounded by his power I stand, His work on other souls I see, He deals his gifts on either hand, But still he hides himself from me. Groaning I languish at his stay, But he regards my every groan; Dark and disconsolate my way; But still my way to him is known.","word_count":149,"source_url":null,"themes":["works-mercy","reign-of-god","works-piety"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:25:46.871854"}]}