...to all his seed. Ï The Book of JOB. CHAP. I. fT^HERE was a man in the land of Uz, 1 whose name mas Job ; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His substance also was seven thousand...

...called by God Himself "the Friend of God ;"§ God was pleased to listen to Isaac's prayer, || and Job was "perfect and upright, and one that feared God and eschewed evil ;"î all which are instances of a capacity in man to distinguish between good and evil, and of acting...

...the mounttnB of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, mil come, defy Israel. Numb, xxiii. 723 Uz.] There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. Job i. 1. (!*• took I the wine cup of his fury) to all the mingled people, and all the kings of thelrad...

...Paradise Lost and the prose compositions of Milton. The following is a specimen of the prose : — " There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was...feared God. and eschewed evil. And there were born unto liirn seven sons and three daughters. Let us now turn to the metrical part, and we feel at once that...

...read, Gen. vi. 9, that " Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generation." We read also, Job i, 1, "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job, and that man was PERFECT." Now, whatever the perfection of Noah and Job consisted in, it is evident that it was not Jewish perfection...

...the Ions of his gsoas and children, i* his mourning, he blesseth God. was a man in the land of Uz, JL shtaroth, uel praying in grief, shunned evil. 2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His i substance also was...

...the stormy shores of time, for many long and dismal years, before they could be admitted to glory ! " There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was...upright ; and one that feared God and eschewed evil." — Job i. 1. — Now how was this perfect and upright man externally rewarded for his goodness in...

...agreed by all grammarians : ' In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' Gen. i. 1. ' There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one that/eared God and eschewed evil ?' Job, i. 1. In all such cases as these, we should say, that the...

...render manifest the truth. The first chapter of the Book of Job commences with the statement, that " there was a man in the " land of Uz, whose name was Job;" and in the third verse of the same chapter, we read, that he " was the greatest of all the men of the east"...

...first chapter of the book which bears his name. - In the commencement of that chapter we read, that " there was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was...one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there was born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and...