Identifier: bookofjob00gilbrich (find matches)
Title: The book of Job
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: London, J. Nisbet
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ch as he hadbefore. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all hissisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, anddid eat bread with him in his house : and they bemoaned him, andcomforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought uponhim : every man also gave him a piece of money, and every onean earring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than hisbeginning : for lie had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand THE BOOK OF JOB. I 55 camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called thename of the first, Jemima ; and the name of the second, Kezia ;and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. And in all the landwere no women found so fair as the daughters of Job : and theirfather gave them inheritance among their brethren. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw hissons, and his sons sons, even four generations. So Job died,being old and full of days.
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NOTES. Page 2 1, Chap. ill. 3. Let the day pernh ivherein I tuas horn! The abrupt energy of the commencement in the oiiginal (DTISX^) Perish the day in whicli I was born, hardly gets justice from theEnglish imperative, Let the day perish. Still feebler is Luthers Der tag mijsse verlohrcn seyn, darinnen ich gebohren bin. Tiue tothe Hebrew, the Septuagint begins, arr&/.o/-o i^ r,;Lifa ; Schultens, Pere-at lux; Dr. Mason Good, Miss Smith, Mr. Wemyss, and Mr. Noyes, Perish the day. This outburst of despondency and anguish is rendered as follows in alittle work, of gieat merit and great modesty, A Metrical Version of theBook of Job, designed chiefly for the use of Schools, (C. Gilpin, 1852).We do not know if any more has been published than the first part, con-taining twenty chapters. Woe to the day that saw my birth.And when my being first began,When wept the babe its doom ot earthAs weeps the man. Let darkness still that day entomb, Unmarkd of God with eye of love ;Let not one ray to

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