Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...continue without any interference on God's part In answer to this Bildad can only stammer out a few words (xxv.), containing nothing new, and merely repeating what Eliphaz has already said more than once; and then, after Job's brief reply (xxvi.), Zophar evidently has nothing whatever to say, and, considering discretion to be the better part of valour, he wisely holds his tongue, and leaves Job master of the field to continue his utterance in the form of a monologue The debate really reached its climax in the second circle of speeches; and it must be admitted that as an othical and psychological study this third circle has less of interest. Job's passion has largely spent itself, and the assured position which he reached in xix. gives his words a calmer tone, so that his longing to find God in xxiii. is expressed with great pathos and tenderness, but with infinitely less of the vehemence and tremendous force which we have noticed in his earlier utterances. But if the psychological interest is diminished, yet Job's greater calmness enables him to give increased artistic finish to his utterances; and in this third circle of speeches we meet for the first time with elaborately worked up pictures, exquisitely finished in every minute detail, like some old Flemish painting, which from this time onward form a prominent feature of the book. XXII. Third speech of Eliphaz. Job at the close of the previous debate had openly arraigned the doctrine of God's providence, and had brought forward the stubborn evidence of facts to support his view that no system of perfect moral government can be traced in the ordering of this world. Eliphaz ignores altogether this disproof of the theory which he and his friends have advanced, and after an attempt to prove from the doctrine...
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