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 chapter character collection common David death dirge divine doctrine Edom Elihu Eliphaz enemy English example exile fact feeling friends give Gunkel hath Hebrew poetry house of Yahweh human hymn indicated instances Israelite Jerusalem Job's Kenites king language later literature ment mentioned Mesopotamia metre MICHIGAN mind Moab narrative normal Old Testament once original Palestine parallelism passages person piece poem poet possible praise probably problem prophetic prose proverbs Psalmist Psalms Psalter reader reference religion religious righteous second member seems seen sense Sheol shews Solomon sometimes Song Song of Songs speech spirit stanza story suffering suggest syllables term the-Lord thou thought tion true UNIVERS utterances verse whole wicked Wisdom woman speaks words worship Yahweh Zophar