THE Book of Job is the first great poem of the soul in its mundane conflict, facing the inexorable of sorrow, change, pain, and death, and feeling within itself at one and the same time weakness and energy, the hero and the serf, brilliant hopes, tcmole fears. With entire veracity and amazing force this book represents the never-ending drama renewed in every generation and every genuine life. It breaks upon us out of the old world and dim muffled centuries with all the vigour of the modern soul and that religious impetuosity which none but Hebrews seem fully to have known. Looking for precursors of Job we find a seeming spiritual burden and intensity in the Accadian psalms, their confessions and prayers; but if the)' prepared the w:ay for Hebrew psalmists and for the author of Job, it was not by awaking the cardinal thoughts that make this book what it is, nor by supplying an example of the dramatic order, the fine sincerity and abounding art we find here welling up out of die desert.Table of Contents THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK 3; II; THE OPENING SCENE ON EARTH19; III; THE OPENING SCENE JN HEAVEN 33; IV; THE SHADOW OF COn's HAND 50; V; THE DILEMMA OF FAITH 67; THE FIRST COLLOQUY; VI; THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH 85; VIJ; THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN99; VIII; PAGE; MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARINGIl6; IX; VENTURESOME THEOLOGY I35; X; THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN141; XI; A FRESH ATTEMPT TO CONVICT154; XII; BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD162; THE SECOND COLLOQUY XIII; THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE18; XIV; " MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN "201; XV,; A SCHEME OF WORLD-RULE215; XVI; "MY REDEEMER LI VET H "222; XVII; IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE243; XVIII; ARE THE WAYS OF THE LORD EQUAL ? 253; XIX; PAGE; DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR 269; XX; WHERE IS ELOAH ? 281; XXI; THE DOMINION AND THE BRIGHTNESS 298; XXII; THE OUTSKIRTS OE HIS WAYS 302; XXI11; CHORAL INTERLUDE 3'3; XXIV; AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING 320; KLTHU FNTEHVENES xxv; POST-EXILIC WISDOM ^41; XX --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.