Here, again, the difficulties connected with the use of the argument have become so perplexing that many consider it wise not to use it at all.
The experiences of the perfect Job raised the perplexing question, How can the suffering of a righteous man be harmonized with the belief in a holy and just God?
The best specimen of this type of Wisdom literature is the book of Job, which deals with the perplexing problem of evil and suffering.
The solution of Jehovah--The whole universe is an unfathomable mystery, in which the evil is no more perplexing than the good.
If we could know, as He knows, all that is most perplexing in this problem would be made plain.
For to each thing God hath given Its appointed time; No perplexing change permits He In His plan sublime.
Business is perplexing and uncertain, you say, but what of the triumphs of success?
With this perplexing inquiry was mingled a deep and abiding admiration.
Or perhaps we might liken him to that ingenious piece of fire-work called a zigzag cracker, which explodes with unexpected and repeated suddenness, changing its position in a most perplexing manner at every crack.
The great buildings rose dimly, veiled by a perplexing twilight, albeit the rivulet of sky above was now bright with day.
Gigantic dreams that were terrible realities at the time, left vague perplexing memories, strange creatures, strange scenery, as if from another planet.
Literature has hardly paid sufficient attention to a social phenomenon of a singularly perplexing kind.
In place of tender remembrances of Cecilia, these were the perplexing and unwelcome thoughts which the more potent personality of Francine forced upon Emily's mind.
Standing on a projecting point of the rock, it is difficult of access, for the path is cumbered with loose stones, from one to the other of which runs in perplexing branches the twining ivy.
Multitudes of dark perplexing ideas succeeded each other in my mind, with a rapidity which doubt and dissatisfaction created.
The perplexing questions of psychology, of tradition, of manuscripts, and of miracles are interesting enough for those who are equipped to study them; but all these are much less than the one essential thing.
When we say that Jesus is the soul of the New Testament, we have no reference to perplexing questions about how He came or how He went.
Some sceptics take special delight in perplexing common Christians with the deepest philosophical aspects of their faith.
But I was born free, I answered him, confusing and perplexing him and putting a great fear in his heart that belike his office might be taken from him for having tied a Roman citizen to the whipping-post, merely that and nothing more.
Speak to him if thou wouldst of a sea voyage, but speak not of anything directly for fear of perplexing him.
These are the gleams of the mens divinior, that relieve the perplexing moral squalor of the portrait.
Mr. Crisparkle continuing to observe it, found it even more perplexingthan before, inasmuch as it seemed to denote (which could hardly be) some close internal calculation.
A very perplexed expression took hold of Mr. Jasper's face; a very perplexing expression too, for Mr. Crisparkle could make nothing of it.
It is not likely that they ever met, though so often, without a sensation on the part of each that the other was a perplexing secret to him.
Illustration: The presence of Figuero in Cowes was perplexing Page 49] He could not be mistaken.
I was staggered for a few seconds, I admit, but the effects of the blow have passed, and my best excuse is that other things are perplexing me.
It constitutes one of the most difficult and perplexing problems in transportation.
The amount of reduction to be allowed on shipments by carload as against consignments in small lots is a nice and most perplexing problem in classification.
This is the important and perplexing problem of minimum carload rates.
In fact, to Blake's mind, the laws of reason were nothing but a horrible phantasm deluding and perplexing mankind, from whose clutches it is the business of every human soul to free itself as speedily as possible.
The perplexing question was recently emphasised and illustrated in a singular way.
It was an elaborate piece of humbug, welcomed with perfect gravity as the solution of a perplexing and difficult problem.
Uncle Mo repeated the date slowly after her, and then seemed to plunge into a perplexing calculation, very distorting to the natural repose of his face.
The different inflexion of voice helped Gwen against that perplexing sense of her likeness to her twin, which would assert itself whenever she became silent.
Long after the discovery of the compass needle there were many perplexing problems arising, and all sorts of theories were advanced to account for the various phenomena.
To give any satisfactory theory as to its place with and relation to other forms of energy is a perplexing problem.
Inquiry has at last elicited the fact that the sign is a corrupted one, but this was not arrived at until after much amusing and erudite speculation, as the sign in its present form is a very perplexing one.
That is quite a new and perplexing point which you specify about the freshwater fishes during the glacial period.
It is a perplexing case, for Nathusius says the skull of the Aru resembles that of the Chinese breed, and he thinks that Sus papuensis has been founded on a young skull; D.
After many of those perplexing adventures and narrow escapes which generally befall dethroned royalty, he at length succeeded in embarking for the continent.
It was a perplexing problem how possibly to remain a while longer in Paris, which was essential to the carrying on of his work, and to find the means of supplying his very simple wants.
Every possible suggestion finds a place, so that the mind is distracted as much as enlightened by this perplexing accuracy.
Looked at through the medium of Count Mellikoff's and Miss James's statements, that lady's conduct did indeed appear not only perplexing but condemning.
Throughout I have attempted to elucidate and bring into uniformity the perplexing and confused special terms employed in the discussion.
It is evident that hence complications might arise perplexingto the savage mind.
