'This great and wide sea, wherein are creeping things innumerable, both small and great beasts.... 'He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. 'I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God as long as I have my being.'--_Psalm_ 104. And what a lofty point of view is shewn by the overpowering words which Job puts into the mouth of Jehovah; 'Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line upon it? 'Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof? 'When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?... 'Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place? 'That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?... 'Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea, or hast thou walked in the search of the deep?... 'Declare, if thou knowest it all!... 'Where is the way where light dwelleth, and as for darkness, where is the place thereof?' etc. Compare with this _Isaiah_ xl. verse 12, etc. Metaphors too, though poetic and fine, are not individualized. 'Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.'--_Psalm_ 42. 'Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.'--_Psalm_ 69. There are many pictures from the animal world; and these are more elaborate in Job than elsewhere (see _Job_ xl. and xli.). Personifications, as we have seen, are many, but Nature is only called upon to sympathise with man in isolated cases, as, for instance, in 2 _Samuel_ i.: 'Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as if he had not been anointed with oil.' The Cosmos unfolded itself to the Hebrew[3] as one great whole, and the glance fixed upon a distant horizon missed the nearer lying detail of phenomena. His imagination ranged the universe with the wings of the wind, and took vivid note of air, sky, sea, and land, but only, so to speak, in passing; it never rested there, but hurried past the boundaries of earth to Jehovah's throne, and from that height looked down upon creation.