Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.
 “If today he consents to bless us With a sense of pardoned sin, He may tomorrow distress us, Make us feel the plague within, All to make us Sick of self, and fond of him.”
