THE

BIBLICAL CABINET;

OR

HERMENEUTICAL, EXEGETICAL,

AND

PHILOLOGICAL LIBRARY.

VOL. XVI.

UMBREIT'S VERSION OF THE BOOK OF JOB.

EDINBURGH:

THOMAS CLARK, 38. GEORGE STREET;

J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, LONDON ;

AND W. CURRY, JUN. & CO. DUBLIN.

MDCCCXXXVI.

OF

THE BOOK OF JOB;

WITH

EXPOSITORY NOTES,

AND

AN INTRODUCTION, ON THE SPIRIT, COMPOSITION,

AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK;

BY

D. FRIEDRICH WILHELM CARL UMBREIT,

PROF. OF THEOLOGY IN HEIDELBERG.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN,

BY

THE REV. JOHN HAMILTON GRAY, M. A.

OF MAGD. COLLEGE, OXFORD, VICAR Of bolsover.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

THOMAS CLARK, 38. GEORGE STREET.

MDCCCXXXVI.

INTRODUCTION.

I. On the Genius and Form of the Book.

THE vain and perishable nature of earthly things led the Preacher Solomon to consider this question, so important to the interests of man, "What is, under the sun, the chief and most enduring good?" His anxious, but fruitless search for an answer caused a mental struggle, in which daring reason viewing the strongest outlines of naked truth, opposed the sharp disparities of life to the faith which commands implicit confidence in God. But at length he acquiesced, with submission, in the unalterable decrees of Omnipotent Wisdom.

In the Book of Job, we find that a still more important question suggested itself to the mind of the Sage: "How comes experience to teach us, that the pious are often tried by suffering, while the wicked revel in the fulness of prosperity?" Hence arose

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