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Excerpt from Commentary on the Book of Job: With Translation by the Late Dr. Georg Heinrich August Von Ewald, Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Gottingen
Primarily, however, by the immediate sufferer himself. He feels most directly the irresistible assault of mysterious suffer ing, whether it be the burning fever of a violent illness or some other peril threatening complete destruction. Assailed by the most painful sensations, experiencing nothing gentle, mitigating, alleviating, he believes that instead of the former gentle, quickening divine breath, the value of which he now for the first time fully recognises, he endures the wrath of God, xvi. 9; xix. 11; xxx. 21; 12; Lam. I. 12; ii. 1, 3; iii. 1; iv. 11; that he feels His indignation entering into him x. 17, that he grievously and helplessly falls under His enmity xiii. 24; xxx. 21. This feeling seeks expression by means of the most varied figures. The unhappy sufferer feels as if his sufferings were an indignant, chastising hand, with which God clutches him and which rests upon him heavily and without ces sation, i. 11; ii. 5; xiii. 21; xix. 21; xxiii. 2; xxx. 21; ps. Xxxviii. 3; xxxix. 11. The cruel pains of his calamities appear to him like those caused by sharply pointed and deeply penetrating arrows and missiles of all kinds, vi.4; Ps.xxxviii.3; Lam. Ii.4.
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