...which Job esteemed limself happy to have been preserved : " If I beheld the sun when it shined, >r the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or лу mouth hath kissed .my hand."§ The Persians adored the sun, and particularly the rising sun, with...

...because my 4 Now Elihu had waited til) Job hand had gotten much ; had spoken, because they were 20 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in elder than he. 5 When Elihu saw that there brightness \ was no answer in the mouth of 27 And my heart...

...hand had gotten much ; 23 If I beheld the sun when it shlned, or the moon walking in brightness ; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed mv hand : 28 This also werf an iniquity to be punish ed 6y the judge: for I should have denied the...

...confidence! And if I beheld the sun when it shinecl,~ur the moon walking in brightness; and my heart has been secretly enticed; or my mouth hath kissed' my hand: this also was an iniquity to be punished by the judge, for I (viz. in so doing) should have denied the God that...

...my confidence ; If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because mine hand had gotten much ; If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...[were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that] is above. Job xxxi. 24 — 28. There shall come in the last day...

...tell him : — " If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence ; if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge : for I should have denied the God that is above."* It is in the same spirit that God is described, in one...

...for all the host of heaven . . . wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord " (II Kings xxi, 5, 6). " If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...brightness, and my heart hath been secretly enticed " (Job xxxi, 26, 27), and in the second commandment (Ex. xx, 4), the first forbidden image is that...

...do not now easily realise. A passage from Job (not without its own wild poetry in it) may help us : "if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth kissed my hand; this also would be an iniquity" (31, 26-28). There is here no question of turning,...

...him. In the thirty-first chapter of the book of Job he praises himself for his godliness, and says: "If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking...secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand." Here he is evidently alluding to the hand kiss or thrown kiss, by which the Gentiles used to greet...

...confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 give the rain of thy seed, that thou shall sow the ground withal; and 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity...