Produced by Chris Curnow, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Note: Characters following ^ are superscripted. * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB INVENTED AND ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM BLAKE A NEW EDITION NEW YORK D. APPLETON & COMPANY 1903 NOTE This Issue is reproduced in reduced facsimile from the original Edition published by William Blake in the year 1826. [Illustration: ILLUSTRATIONS of The BOOK of JOB Invented & Engraved by William Blake 1825 London Published as the Act directs March 8:1825 by William Blake N^o 3 Fountain Court, Strand] * * * * * [Illustration: Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thus did Job continually There was a Man in the Land of Uz whose Name was Job. & that Man was perfect & upright & one that feared God & eschewed Evil & there was born unto him Seven Sons & Three Daughters The Letter Killeth The Spirit giveth Life It is Spiritually Discerned] [Illustration: I beheld the Ancient of Days Hast thou considered my Servant Job The Angel of the Divine Presence I shall see God We shall awake up Thou art our Father in thy Likeness When the Almighty was yet with me. When my Children were about me There was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord & Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord] [Illustration: The Fire of God is fallen from Heaven And the Lord said unto Satan. Behold All that he hath is in thy Power Thy Sons and thy Daughters were eating & drinking Wine in their eldest Brothers house & behold there came a great wind from the Wilderness & smote upon the four faces of the house & it fell upon the young Men & they are Dead] [Illustration: And there came a Messenger unto Job & said The Oxen were plowing & the Sabeans came down & they have slain the Young Men with the Sword Going to & fro in the Earth & walking up and down in it And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking there came also another & said The fire of God is fallen from the heaven & hath burned up the flocks & the Young Men & consumed them & I only am escaped alone to tell thee] [Illustration: Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my Soul afflicted for the Poor Behold he is in thy hand: but save his life Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord And it grieved him at his heart Who maketh his Angels Spirits & his Ministers a Flaming Fire] [Illustration: Naked came I out of my mothers womb & Naked shall I return thither The Lord gave & the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord And smote Job with sore Boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head]