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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. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... j the author uncertain. It is remarkable, that this book has no connexion with the affairs, or manners of the Jews, or Hebrews. The scene is laid in the land of Uz, or Idum a, which is a part of Arabia; and the imagery employed is generally of a different kind, from what I before fliowed to be peculiar to the Hebrew poets. We meet with no allusions to the great events of sacred history, to the religious rites of the Jews, to Lebanon or to Carmel, or any of the peculiarities of the climate of Jud a. We find few comparisons founded on rivers or torrents; these were not familiar objects in Arabia. But the longest comparison that occurs in the book, is to an object frequent and well known in that region, a brook that fails in the season of heat, and disappoints the expectation of the traveller. The poetry, however, of the book of Job, is not only equal to that of any other of the sacred writings, but is superior to them all, except those of Isaiah alone. As Isaiah is the most sublime, David the most pleasing and tender, so Job is the most descriptive, of all the inspired poets. A peculiar glow of fancy, and strength of description, characterize the author. No writer whatever abounds so much in metaphors. He may be said, not to describe, but to tender visible, whatever he treats of, A variety of instances might' be given. Let us remark only those strong and lively colors, with which in the following passages, taken from the 18th and 20th chapters of his book, he paints the condition of the wicked; observe how rapidly his figures rife before us; and what a deep impression, at the fame time, they leave on the imagination. Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon the earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is...

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