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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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crape himself withal; and he satdown among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine inte-grity ? curse God, and die. But he said unto her. Thou spcakestas one of the foolish women speaketh. What ? shall we receivegood at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil. In allthis did not Job sin with his lips. THE BOOK OF JOB. Now when Jobs three friends heard of all this e\il that wascome upon him, they came every one from his own place ; Eliphazthe Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite :for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn withhim and to comfort him. And when they lifted up their eyes afaroff, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept -, andthey rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their headstoward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the groundseven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him : forthey saw that his grief was very great. PART I. THE CONTROVERSY FIRST SERIES
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born,And the night in which it was said. There is aman child conceived. THE BOOK 01- JOE. Let that day be darkness ; Let not God regard it from above, Neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Ixt the blackness of the day terrify it. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; Let it not be joined unto the days of the year, Let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be solitary, Let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it that curse the day. Who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark ; Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it see the dawning of the day : Because it shut not up the doors of my mothers womb, Nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I not from the womb ?Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of th

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