The Poetry of the Old Testament

acrostic actual anacrusis ancient Israel appears arrangement Bible Bildad blessing Book of Job Book of Proverbs century B.C. certainly character collection common David death dirge divine doctrine Edom Elihu Eliphaz enemy example exile fact feeling friends give hath Hebrew poetry house of Yahweh human hymn indicated instances Israelite Jerusalem Job's Kenites king language later literature ment mentioned Mesopotamia metre mind Moab narrative natural normal Old Testament once original Palestine parallelism passages person pieces poem poet poetic form possible praise present probably prophetic prose proverbs Psalmist Psalms Psalter reader reference religion religious righteous ritual second member seems seen sense sentence Sheol shews Solomon sometimes Song Song of Songs speech spirit stanza story stress suffering suggest syllables term the-Lord thou thought tion true utterances whole wicked Wisdom woman speaks words worship Zophar