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Excerpt from The Book of Job: The Common English Version, the Hebrew Text, and the Revised Version of the American Bible Union
I know that thou canst Do all things, And that from thee no purpose can be withheld. But they are by no means a pertinent reply to the language Of this paragraph, in the sense in which it is understood by Ewald, viz., as a declaration Of the union of power with justice. Of this there is here no acknowledgment or recognition. The few verbal peculiarities are of little account. The single instance, in of the frequent Omission of the interrogative particle (occurring also in 2 9, 10; 39 has little weight in such a question.* The Jordan overflowing its banks see note), is properly used for any swollen stream; but, in the nature Of the case, such an image would not be likely to be repeated (hahn, das Buch Hiob, S. 15, In regard to Leviathan (40 it is not a conceded point that this word is used in a mythological sense in 3 8, as claimed by Ewald; and were this admitted, still the same writer might employ the word elsewhere in its original sense and application. 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.
