[Illustration: What! shall we receive Good at the hand of God & shall we not also receive Evil And when they lifted up their eyes afar off & knew him not they lifted up their voices & wept. & they rent every Man his mantle & sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven Ye have heard of the Patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord] [Illustration: Lo let that night be solitary & let no joyful voice come therein Let the Day perish wherein I was Born And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days & seven nights & none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great] [Illustration: Shall mortal Man be more Just than God? Shall a Man be more Pure than his Maker? Behold he putteth no trust in his Saints & his Angels he chargeth with Folly Then a Spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up] [Illustration: But he knoweth the way that I take when he hath tried me I shall come forth like gold Have pity upon me! Have pity upon me. O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me Though he slay me yet will I trust in him The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn Man that is born of a Woman is of few days & full of trouble he cometh up like a flower & is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow & continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one & bringest me into judgment with thee] [Illustration: My bones are pierced in me in the night season & my sinews take no rest My skin is black upon me & my bones are burned with heat The triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light & his Ministers into Ministers of Righteousness With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me with Visions Why do you persecute me as God & are not satisfied with my flesh. Oh that my words were printed in a Book that they were graven with an iron pen & lead in the rock for ever For I know that my Redeemer liveth & that he shall stand in the latter days upon the Earth & after my skin destroy thou This body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for Myself and mine eyes shall behold & not Another tho consumed be my wrought Image Who opposeth & exalteth himself above all that is called God or is Worshipped] [Illustration: For God speaketh once yea twice & Man percieveth it not In a Dream in a Vision of the Night in deep Slumberings upon the bed Then he openeth the ears of Men & sealeth their instruction That he may withdraw Man from his purpose & hide Pride from Man If there be with him an Interpreter One among a Thousand then he is gracious unto him & saith Deliver him from going down to the Pit I have found a Ransom For his eyes are upon the ways of Man & he observeth all his goings I am Young and ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid