The Book of Job on a Song in the Night (Paperback)

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. 1864 Excerpt: ...wisdom free, The thing appointed and decreed for me. Eternal order, steadfast and secure, Unfolding slowly, yet divinely sure; Without caprice, or chance, or sudden wrath, Directs my steps, and maketh all my path. 'Tis therefore vain for weak, and ign'rant man, To fight against Jehovah's changeless plan. Not me alone affliction smiteth sore, Unnumbered others had their griefs before. The plan is vast, embracing heaven and earth, With ev'ry creature of terrestrial birth; I suffer not, as if selected out, From all the rest that sigh their turn about; But all alike, proportioned to their sphere, The plan embraces in its trials here: From types and germs, midst rudimental strife, Developing the higher forms of life. I'm troubled therefore at His presence near, When I consider, I am filled with fear. The contemplation of the power of God, With all the chast'nings of His dreadful rod; Exhausts my strength, awakens sore complaint, Subdues my heart, and makes it soft and faint. Th' Almighty also greatly troubleth me, Because this mystery I cannot see; Why God did not remove me hence away, Before this darkness overwhelmed my day; And hide from me this cloud of sorrow dense, And not reserve me for this recompense. Since times of punishment of wicked men, Remain unhidden from th' Almighty's ken; Then why do those that know and fear his name, His days of judgment not behold the same? Why not the righteous, with chastising blows, Perceive Him come, to punish all His foes? By acts of robb'ry some their vileness prove, And sacred landmarks wickedly remove. They deem dishonesty no sort of harm, And thus abridge their injured neighbor's farm. They violently take away their flocks, That pasture wild among the hills and rocks. They boldly feed them, publicly, and known, And c...