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Bible, O.T. Job. English.

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AN

AMENDED VERSION

OF

THE BOOK OF JOB,

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION,

AND

NOTES CHIEFLY EXPLANATORY.

BY GEORGE R. NOYES.

CAMBRIDGE:

PUBLISHED BY HILLIARD AND BROWN.

1827.

32101 026729093

CAMBRIDGE.

From the University Press-By Hilliard, Metcalf, & Co.

INTRODUCTION.

THE poem, which it is the design of this volume to illustrate, is,

in
inany respects, the most remarkable production of any age or
country. Though its antiquity is at least equal to that of the
most ancient monuments of Grecian genius, it has for its subject,
not the sanguinary exploits of half-civilized heroes, and the fierce
contentions of rival deities, but the providence of the one true
God, and the duty of man. Its language is the natural effusion of
a soul, full of the sublimest conceptions of the Author of nature,
and his glorious works, and of true sympathy with all that is
great, and amiable, and affecting in the character and condition
of man.
The imagination of the author seems to have ranged
frooly through every part of the universe, and to have enriched

ERRATA.

INTRODUCTION-page v, line 8, for " Ch. i. 7." read Ch. i. ii.

دو

-page vii, line 5 from the bottom, for "of an Arabian into the mouth of a Jew," read of a Jew into the mouth of an Arabian.

familiar with his subject, and seems to ten up UL
have seen, and his ears have heard.

Wheth

itaineth

shadow

ure and

air and

ever

What is most remarkable in a poem of so high
the skill with which all the delineations of the heart,
descriptions of nature, are made subservient to the ill
one important moral subject. He has not merely given
sion of isolated pictures, but a complete and regular po
tinguished by unity of design, and judicious arrangeme

It has been a much debated question, whether the Book o should be considered as an epic, or a dramatic composition. Bu it contains no action, no variety of characters, and no scenes, but

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