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wickedness, from his signal sufferings; and, in a string of lofty
traditions, points out the constant attendance of misery upon
wickedness. 5. Job rises superior to this attack; appeals to the piety
and generosity of his friends; asserts the Almighty to have afflicted
him for purposes altogether unknown; and then soars to a full and
triumphant hope of a future resurrection, and vindication of his
innocence. 6. Zophar repeats the former charge; and Job replies, by
directly controverting his argument, and proving, from a variety of
examples, that in the present world the wicked are chiefly
prosperous, and the just for the most part subject to affliction.
Chap. 15-17
PART 4. — THIRD SERIES OF CONTROVERSY
1. Eliphaz, in direct opposition to Job’s last remarks, contends that
certain and utter ruin is the uniform lot of the wicked; and adduces
the instances of the deluge, and of Sodom and the other cities of the
plain. 2. Job supports his position by fresh and still more forcible
examples. Though he admits that, in the mystery of Providence,
prosperity and adversity are often equally the lot of both the
righteous and the wicked; yet he denies that this ought to be held as
an argument in favor of the last, whose prosperity is in the utmost
degree precarious, and who in calamity are wholly destitute of hope
and consolation. 3. Bildad replies in a string of lofty but general
apophthegms, tending to prove that Job cannot be without sin, since
no man is so in the sight of God. 4. Job rejoins with indignation;
takes a general survey of his life, in the different capacities of a
magistrate, a husband, and a master; and challenges his companions
to point out a single act of injustice he had committed. Chap. 23-31
PART 5. — THE S UMMING UP OF THE CONTROVERSY
1. Zophar, who ought to have concluded the last series, having declined
to prosecute the debate any farther, the general argument is summed
up by Elihu, who has not hitherto spoken, though present from the
first. 2. He condemns the subject matter of the opponents of Job, as