And they that shall be left shall be taken away from them : they shall die, and not in wisdom.

Job's Answer. Then Job answered, and said: How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.

For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me. But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

At least now understand, that God hath afflicted me severely, and compassed me with His scourges.

Behold, I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear : I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way He hath set darkness.

He hath stript me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and He hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. His wrath is kindled against me, and He hath counted me as His enemy.

His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance, like strangers, have departed from me.

My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me have forgotten me.

They that dwell in my house and my maid-servants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.

My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.

They that were some time my counsellors have abhorred me and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath tonched me.

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Job XIX.

1-29.

Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?

With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint-stone?

For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.*

Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another this my hope is laid up in my bosom.

Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him?

Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.

Job XLII.

SECT. XXIII. JOB'S SUBMISSION TO GOD. HIS RETURN TO PROSPERITY.

Job's Submission.-Then Job answered the Lord, and said: 1-6. I know that Thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from Thee. Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. Hear, and I will speak: I will ask Thee, and do Thou tell me. With the hearing of the ear I have heard Thee, but now my eye seeth Thee. Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

Job XLII.

He intercedes for his Friends.-And after the Lord had 7-9. spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before Me, as My servant Job hath. Take unto you therefore seven oxen, and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust: and My servant Job shall pray for you : his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you for you have not spoken right things before Me, as My servant Job hath. So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.

Job XLII. 10-16.

His Restoration.-The Lord also was turned at the penance

* These verses show Job's explicit belief in his Redeemer, and also in the resurrection of the flesh: not as one tree riseth in place of another, but that the selfsame flesh shall rise at the last day, by the power of God, changed in quality but not in substance, every one to receive sentence according to his works in this life. DOUAY BIBLE.

of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand sheasses. And he had seven sons, and three daughters. And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibij. And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. And Job lived after these things a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and full of days.

PART II. THE ISRAELITES.

THE second age contains the history no longer of a chosen family only, but of that family enlarged to a nation-the children of Israel. It begins with the account of their coming out of Egypt, as given in the Second Book of Moses, hence called Exodus. From the time of their slavery under the Pharaohs to their settlement in the Land of Promise under their first king is reckoned as 515 years, from about B.C. 1590 to B.C. 1075. But this period also takes in all that is narrated in the Books of Numbers, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Josue, Judges, and part of First Book of Kings. The chronology of this period is as follows:

B.C.

1571. Birth of Moses.

1531. Moses flees into the desert of Madian.

1491. Moses returns to Egypt, and leads out the Israelites. 1490. The giving of the law.

1451. Balaam the Prophet.

1451. Moses dies, and Josue brings the Israelites into the Promised Land.

1434. Death of Josue.

1405. Othoniel, the first Judge. Peace for forty years. 1343. Aod delivers the Israelites after eighteen years of

oppression.

1300. Samgar defeats the Philistines. Exact time not known. 1285. Debora and Barak defeat Sisera.

1245. Gedeon overthrows the Madianites. • 1236. Abimelech his son governs the land. 1211. Thola.

1188. Jair.

1187. Jephte overthrows the Ammonites.

1182. Abesan. And about this time lived Ruth.

1175. Ahialon.

1164. Abdon.

1137. Samson born.

1116. Heli.

1115. Samuel.

1075. A king appointed.

THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

The Second Book of Moses is called Exodus, from the Greek word Exodos, which signifies going out: because it contains the history of the going of the children of Israel out of Egypt. It embraces the period from the death of Joseph to the setting up of the Tabernacle. In it are related the oppression which the Israelites endured, and the miraculous intervention of God in their behalf. After the account of the coming forth out of Egypt, it goes on to narrate what happened to the Israelites till they reached Mount Sinai, and the giving of the law there.

SECT. XXIV. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE MULTIPLIED IN EGYPT.
PHARAO OPPRESSES THEM. THE BIRTH OF MOSES.

1-7.

THESE are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Exodus 1. Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, Dan and Nephtali, Gad and Aser. And all the souls that came out of Jacob's loins were seventy but Joseph was in Egypt.

After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation, the children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

About

B.C. 1590.

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The Israelites are oppressed. In the mean time there arose Exodus 1. a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph: and he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we. Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land. Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao treasure cities, Phithom and Ramesses. But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased: and the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them: and they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua, commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man-child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive. But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men-children.