Something rose up against Job that comes upon him with fury, gnashes his teeth on him, glares at him with terrible eyes, surrounds him with lances, wounds him in every part, and rushes upon him like a giant; and the witness of the truth of Job's statement is there in the heavens. Eliphaz returns to the charge. He rebukes Job and charges him with many sins and oppressions (chap. xxii): "10. Therefore snares are around about thee, and _sudden fear troubleth thee;_ "11. _Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee_." "13. And thou sayest, How doth God know? Can he judge _through the dark cloud?_ "14. _Thick clouds are a covering to him_, that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. 15. Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? "16. Which were cut down out of time, _whose foundation was overflown with a flood?_" "20. Whereas our substance is not cut down, but _the remnant of them the fire consumeth_." "24. He shall give for earth _flint_, and for flint _torrents of gold_." (Douay ver.) {p. 300} What is the meaning of all this? And why this association of the flint-stones, referred to in so many legends; and the gold believed to have fallen from heaven in torrents, is it not all wonderful and inexplicable upon any other theory than that which I suggest? "30. He shall deliver _the island of the innocent_: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine "(Job's) "hands." What does this mean? Where was "the island of the innocent"? What was the way which the wicked, who did not live on "the island of the innocent," had trodden, but which was swept away in the flood as the bridge Bifrost was destroyed, in the Gothic legends, by the forces of Muspelheim? And Job replies again (chap. xxiii): "16. For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: "17. _Because I was not cut off before the darkness_, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face." That is to say, why did I not die before this great calamity fell on the earth, and before I saw it? Job continues (chap. xxvi): "5. Dead things are formed from _under the waters_, and the inhabitants thereof. "6. _Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering_. The commentators tell us that the words, "dead things are formed under the waters," mean literally, "the souls of the dead tremble from under the waters." In all lands the home of the dead was, as I have shown elsewhere,[1] beyond the waters: and just as we have seen in Ovid that Phaëton's conflagration burst open the earth [1. "Atlantis," 359, 421, etc.] {p. 301} and disturbed the inhabitants of Tartarus; and in Hesiod's narrative that the ghosts trembled around Pluto in his dread dominion; so here hell is laid bare by the great catastrophe, and the souls of the dead in the drowned Flood-land, beneath the waters, tremble. Surely, all these legends are fragments of one and the same great story.