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Excerpt from Job, His Old Friends and His New Friend, Also a Study of What the Book of Job Means to All Mankind
I am happy to realize, namely: if selfishness has anything to do with my motive, it is only in minimum proportion. For, to all human appearance, I am an old man, well past the three score and ten. Most of my old friends, and all of my cousins (of whom there were about fifty) have passed beyond this stage of existence and I am left standing alone, like an old tree - though with still a few green leaves. I have little or no ambition for personal advancement, neither does poverty or riches disturb or influence me (prov. I am better off than the great bankers and capitalists of Europe or America, for I have enough, while they have too much. Pity these poor men! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
