The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-06-05
THE BOOK OF JOB
Long Deferred Justice Measured Out to
Jobs Poor wife nt Last.
BY AMBROSE 8 oITRY.

Jobs Poor wife ut Lnst.
| BY AMBROSE 8, oTTRY.
| The book OF Job Ia wonderful book, a
| treasury OF benevolence great big
storehouse OF theological learning, IL
Dlary oil the choicest literature. living
system OF medicine, an embodiment OF
integrity a repository OF faith, II true pat.
tern of Christian sympathy. q garner of
all virtues. Such an cecunala latlon of
graces and wisdom would mako, 1t is said,
M angel OF any man. II he possessed them
all.
Job was tho man OF the Bible who had
three frlends-Ellphaz Dildad ard 10.
phar. dob 2. H. and when they were afar
oil thoy saw him, but know him mott yet
they lifted up their voice and. wept, SO
| thoy sat seven days and nights upon the
ground, aud nCne spoke u word to JOB.
| Wby2 Because they saw that HE grief was
very great.-Job2 q 1918.
Eliphaz was the first to speak to job
and reproached him for want OF religion
job 10 He also sud of God to Job
| Ana his angels ho charged with folly" A.
IS. Can this be trueY We do not hud In
the Scriptures anything about the folly of
| holy angels.
Again this ams mnn said OF God "yea.
the heavens are not clean In his sight"
| IL. l5 Can this be true? ls 1t In harmony
WIN tAe EARN. when God pronounced
them all Very gooi lhas whicn he had
made" Gen, l. 10 20 Now In tho first
place we are to bear In mind that Eiiphaz
| Iildad AMI Zophar nte not reliable author.
lilies In matters of religious experience.
The Word of God docs ot recognize them
as Inspired men.
The book OF job written about 1920 BIC,
described very accurately several pro.
cesses Of melting metals.
| The book Is ono OF the most familiar
and the best known of any book Of tho
| n ant 10 nj lF AVt,x ., 10
the author OF this book. Moses. Job. Solo
tnon, Elihu aud Hezskiah nave all been
named.
Job himself was a peculiar character.
and In one OF his speeches he said, 1t was
misfortune that he ever was born g.
$ 10. Also he said He wished he had died
| when he was born."3. II, 10.
In another place he said, "Hn would be
better oil II he was dead" 8. 2O-26. There
wGs however job. u suffering Job. whose
| afltetion5 and Victory are go beautifully
portrayed In this book. Any one who
would gIve II q worry careful study. will
soon come olAe fo:!c,pslonl lha t this book
is one OF the greatest Interest
lhe Book Ia Its form Is series OF
speeches. The Lord epeaxs iirst. Satan
neat. and 80 they exchanged words sew,
eral tlmes which you will find In the first
and second chapters. Job then opened
his mouth, and 'cursed his day" Then
Ellphaz made reply. He told Job.
| "Bahold happy is thc mau whom God cor
| rectecth. therefore despise not thou the
christening OF the Almighty" Job 5. II.
Then job speaks again and said. Il have
einnod; what shall do unto thos. o thou
pres5rver OF mon p Then friend number
two. Bildad speaks Then Job answered
him; and then friend number three
speaks.
In all Job makes nine speeches, and his
three friends, eight. The third friend.
| who should have made the ninlh speech
opened not his mouth, but II you read
the 32d chapter. you find that a fourth
| friond comes in the dialogue. and makes
the longest speech Of them all. which
eontal ms elk chapters. 32-37 Inclusive. Tho
Lord brings the addresses TO u close. and
job makes his tlnai reply In n very few
words, found In the AZ. 16. He acknow.
lodged that tho Lord could do every.
thing; and that Things were too wonderful
| for him to understand. .....-.-
In writing this article the writer wanted
to say kind word for Jobs vile as shs
.ins been held up and condemned for
| forty centuries as all unworthy example.
| but when careful thought IL given to
| The circumstanoPs, We are confident that
| Mrs. Job deserves better place In the
worlds history than she 10 credited with.
| For Instance II she was of n sour disposl.
ton. she had enough to make her sour.
| tempered. Take Into consideration. that
she was suddenly reduced from luxury
| " pONoLbgs w 10 nuiu thhi tho UU lulHp
they had left was 'turkOy.') Any
| woman who has sulfered half OF her
| ordeals knows lust how she would feel
| in tho same situation. She waS bNruft Of
her ten ohlldreni seven boys. and threo
7 girls all at once, /. 1919. Any sensible
person knows that thrrs Is no grief so
sad. so hard to bear, or caused III mother's
heart to feel 50 sad. as to see her luyaI
childron laid away In tho grave.
Again TO all this sorrow she had. she
i.HE VNFIN Ii tRtr ia 4.
| hands, WHO was covered with boils, and
experience has taught that there is not
more eNasperatlng being In the world
than "A man with u boil on him. You Will
lind wives and the best OF wives too,
| whose lives have been made wrotobsl for
| days and even months. by "a husband and
| only one boil, on the back of her neck
I Now please take time to think what this
dear woman had TO put up with. Sha
had husband with hundreds of polls on
| him.
| Whyl It is not any wonder TINT the
woman encouraged hun, and tod him to
| Course GOD Hna de-" and terminate his
| existence, The greatest mystery to me ID
| that sho didn't cut her own throat In des-
| pair Again thase were not ali The troubles
| that the madam had to bear. Her hus-
| bands friends cutne on visit TO see him
aud took possession of the house for six
weeks at time They even sat seven
days and nights with job and no one
spoke q work. Wives. what do you think
Of It2 You would have thought that the
friends were little oil. So you can very
readily account for an exhibition OF her
bad temper.
Why. Job got all bothered up and wor
rIed with those three men him self, and
yet he didn't have to walt Oh them. to
clean up their rooms, or wipe the tobacco
juice from the parlor carpet every day, or
| to sweep out tho mud and dirt they car.
| rled in on their shoes. and endure the
| thousand and one annoyances that male
visitor gives tie housekeeper SO 1t is
! Just and right that some one should raise
| HE voice In behalf OF Mrs. job and speak
| a kind word for woman who for 1000
years has suffered the insinuations and
| unjust criticism during that Time.
| There are yet thousands OF Jobs wives
| in the world to-day. who In their troubles
wish that their husbands would curse
God ana die"