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that he "curse God and die." His friends came to him,
insisted that he must have done something wrong. He grew
more and more impatient as he thought of what God had done
to him. "He filleth me with bitterness. Thou knowest God
that I am not wicked. I desire to reason with God." And
he had the audience with God in the whirlwind - not
at all together a satisfactory audience. God comes on strong,
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth.
Canst thou bid to sweet influences of the Phlaedis; canst
thou loost the bands of Orion." Job submits with contriteness
as God says gird up thy loins like a man and serve me.
Whther the end of the Book includes the happy ending or
not is really a religious question. I get off at Chapter
42, Verse 9. That's a matter of individual preference. But
this is the textbook from what we call on of the wisdom
Books of the Bible which first raises this very important
question on the lack of moral economy and how men cope with
it. The fact that, if the ending was before the current
ending, and to drive home the fact that men can not bear to
think of this thing, and they had to supply thier own end.
For as the other Wisdom Book, Ecclesiastes, says, "Man
knoweth not his time. As the fishes are taken in an evil
net and the birds are caught in the snare, so also are the
sons of man snared in an evil time when it falleth suddenly
upon them."