Excerpt from The Book of Job: Interpreted I desire to express my gratitude to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press at Oxford and the Syndics of the University Press at Cambridge for their kindness in giving me permission to use the Revised Version as the basis of my interpretation. The responsibility for the text remains with me. This book being intended not only for scholars, but for general readers who are interested in sacred literature, care has been taken to confine the Hebrew terminology as far as possible within brackets. The exposition follows a searching analysis of the Massoretic Text in the light of the Ancient Versions. There is need for a new translation, embodying the results of recent criticism, and this I hope to publish separately. Time is required for such delicate work. In the meanwhile I have fulfilled a cherished purpose by writing this study, which is mainly exegetical, though in part inevitably critical. The Book which I have tried to elucidate is so supremely great, and touches so many of the deepest problems of the modern world, that one would fain draw fresh minds under the spell of its mighty inspiration. To my friend the Rev. A. P. Davidson, m.a., I am greatly indebted for assistance in the correction of proofs. 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.