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_]OB.
By dreams and by visions at night,
When stupor has falien on men,
In slumbers, when laid on their bed?
It is then He uncovers men’s ears
And instructs them about the unseen,
To tum men away from their acts
And take away pride from the great;
To keep back his life from decay
And his soul from the ford of the Pit.
Or He lays him with pain ou his bed,
And anguish contends with his bones,
And his life, it refuses its food,
And his body, the choicest of meat!
His flesh is consumed out of sight
And his bones that were hidden stick out;
While his body is nearly dissolved
And his soul is approaching the dead.
If an Angel is present with him,
Interceding, as one of the Friends,
To show to the man what is right,
Set him free,
I relieve from descent to decay!
And his iiesh is revived as in youth,
It returns as in childh0od’s estate ;»
Then he prays to his Gon who was kind
And looks on His face with delight,
And returns to his duties to man.
I sinned,
And did wrong, but He punished me not,
But brought back from the ford of the Pit,
And revived me to look on the light}
Be sure that GOD acts like this,
More often than once with a man,
To turn back his life from the Pit,
To rejoice in existence in light I
job! attentively listen to me;
Be silent! For more I would speak;
But if you can answer me, say
For my wish is to justify you.
If not, why then listen to me,
Be still while I wisely will teach!
84 Then Elihu continued to speak and said
Attend, you Wise Men, to my speech,
You, Philosophers, listen to mel
About reasons the ear can decide,
As the palate the flavours of food.
We can choose out the riht for ourselves
gAnd distinguish within w at is best.
I have been right,
But GOD took the verdict from me!
Although I am right-—·should I lie?
Without fault, I am tortured to death !’
Whoever of men is like job,
Like water he swallows down sin,
joins the path of pursuers of vice
And associates with protligate men?
That it profits not man
arising from ignorance of Hebrew diction and by a Lexicon. My diction is also far more
idiom of thought. I unravelled the epigram forcible.-F. F.
by re8ection on its purport, not merely
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