"Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in the land,
they should deliver their own souls only by their righteousness, saith the
Lord God."-EZEK. xiv. 14.

"Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of
the patience of Job, and have seen the end brought about by the Lord;
that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." — JAMES V. II.

DIVINITY SCHOOL

LIBRARY.

HARVARD

UNIVERSITY

BOSTON:

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR.

PRINTED BY GEORGE C. RAND AND AVERY,

No. 3, CORNHILL.

PREFACE.

THERE are one hundred and twenty different translations of the Book of Job, and it is supposed that there is no pressing call for any addition to the number. The version now submitted to the judgment of the reader is not a translation, but an interpretation. In preparing it, the editor has had constantly before him several of the most approved translations; and he has carefully selected from them such renderings of the different passages as seemed to him best adapted to bring out, in English, the general meaning of the poem; preference being given, whenever possible, to the words of King James's version. It is only in cases of doubt respect