The Book of Job (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Book of Job Again the heavenly Council convenes, and again the Satan is present. The Lord speaks of His servant Job with approval and with compassion, and upbraids the Adversary with insti gating Him to bring undeserved suffering upon him. The Satan's answer is ready: the trial did not touch Job close enough, let the hand of God touch him in his own bone and ¿esh and he will disown Him to His face. The Adversary receives permission to af¿ict Job himself, with the reservation that he shall spare his life. Straightway Job is smitten with sore boils, the leprosy called Elephantiasis, and he ¿ings himself down among the ashes, taking a potsherd to scrape himself withal. The deeper af¿iction only reveals greater deeps in Job's reverent piety. In his former trial he blessed God who took away the good He had added to naked man, this was strictly no evil: now he bows beneath His hand when He in¿icts positive evil: We receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not also receive evil? In all this Job sinned not with his lips he let no sinful murmur against God escape him (ch. Ii. I - io). Then the narrative informs us how Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, having heard of his great misfortunes, come to condole with him. They are struck dumb at the sight of his terrible calamity, and sit with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, none of them speaking a word. Moved by the presence and the sympathising gestures of his friends, Job loses his self-control, and breaks out into a passionate cry for death (ch. Ii. II - ch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.