This is according to the King James version, but the Douay version gives it as follows: "3. He hath set _a time for darkness_, and the _end of all things he considereth_; the stone also that is _in the dark_, and the shadow of death. "4. The flood _divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the foot of the needy man hath forgotten, and those who cannot be come at_. 5. The land out of which bread grew in its place, _hath been overturned with fire_." That is to say, God has considered whether he would not make an end of all things: he has set a time for darkness; in the dark are the stones; the flood separates the people; those who are escaping are divided by it from those who were forgotten, or who are on the other side of the flood, where they can not be come at. But the land where formerly bread grew, the land of the agricultural people, the civilized land, the plain of Ida where grew the apples, the plain of Vigrid where the great battle took place, _that has been overturned by fire_. And this land the next verse tells us: "6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it" (King James, "dust") "are gold." We are again reminded of those legends of America and Europe where gold and jewels fell from heaven among the stones. We are reminded of the dragon-guarded hoards of the ancient myths. The Douay version says: "9. He" (God) "has stretched out his hand to the _flint_, he hath _overturned mountains from the roots_." What is the meaning Of FLINT here? And why this recurrence of the word flint, so common in the Central American legends and religions? And when did God in {p. 304} the natural order of things overturn mountains by the roots? And Job (chap. xxx, Douay version) describes the condition of the multitude who had at first mocked him, and the description recalls vividly the Central American pictures of the poor starving wanderers who followed the Drift Age: "3. Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, _disfigured with calamity_ and misery. 4. And they ate grass, and _barks of trees_, and the _root of junipers was their food_. "5. Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and _when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry_. "6. They dwelt in the _desert places of torrents_, and _in caves of the earth_, or UPON THE GRAVEL." Is not all this wonderful? In the King James version, verse 3 reads: 3. For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, in former time, desolate and waste." The commentators say that the words, "in former time, desolate and waste," mean literally, "_the yesternight of desolation and waste_." Job is describing the condition of the people immediately following the catastrophe, not in some remote past. And again Job says (Douay version, chap. xxx): "12. . . . My calamities forthwith arose; they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves. . . .