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ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE
BOOK OF JOB INVENTED AND ENGRAVED
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
A NEW EDITION
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON & COMPANY
1903
NOTE
This Issue is reproduced in reduced facsimile from the original Edition
published by William Blake in the year 1826.
[Illustration:
ILLUSTRATIONS of The BOOK of JOB
Invented & Engraved by William Blake 1825 London Published as the Act directs March 8:1825
by William Blake N^o 3 Fountain Court, Strand]
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Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thus did Job continually There was a Man in the Land of Uz whose Name was Job. & that Man was
perfect & upright & one that feared God & eschewed Evil & there was
born unto him Seven Sons & Three Daughters The Letter Killeth The Spirit giveth Life It is Spiritually Discerned]
[Illustration:
I beheld the Ancient of Days Hast thou considered my Servant Job The Angel of the Divine Presence I shall see God We shall awake up Thou art our Father in thy Likeness When the Almighty was yet with me. When my Children were about me There was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before
the Lord & Satan came also among them to present himself before the
Lord]
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The Fire of God is fallen from Heaven And the Lord said unto Satan. Behold All that he hath is in thy Power Thy Sons and thy Daughters were eating & drinking Wine in their eldest
Brothers house & behold there came a great wind from the Wilderness &
smote upon the four faces of the house & it fell upon the young Men &
they are Dead] [Illustration:
And there came a Messenger unto Job & said The Oxen were plowing & the
Sabeans came down & they have slain the Young Men with the Sword Going to & fro in the Earth & walking up and down in it And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking there came also another & said The fire of God is fallen from the heaven & hath burned up the flocks &
the Young Men & consumed them & I only am escaped alone to tell thee]
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Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my Soul afflicted
for the Poor Behold he is in thy hand: but save his life Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord And it grieved him at his heart Who maketh his Angels Spirits & his Ministers a Flaming Fire]
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Naked came I out of my mothers womb & Naked shall I return thither The Lord gave & the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the Name of the
Lord And smote Job with sore Boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of
his head]
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What! shall we receive Good at the hand of God & shall we not also
receive Evil And when they lifted up their eyes afar off & knew him not they lifted
up their voices & wept. & they rent every Man his mantle & sprinkled
dust upon their heads towards heaven Ye have heard of the Patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord]
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Lo let that night be solitary & let no joyful voice come therein Let the Day perish wherein I was Born And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days & seven nights &
none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great]
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Shall mortal Man be more Just than God? Shall a Man be more Pure than
his Maker? Behold he putteth no trust in his Saints & his Angels he
chargeth with Folly Then a Spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up]
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But he knoweth the way that I take when he hath tried me I shall come
forth like gold Have pity upon me! Have pity upon me. O ye my friends for the hand of
God hath touched me Though he slay me yet will I trust in him The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn Man that is born of a Woman is of few days & full of trouble he cometh
up like a flower & is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow & continueth
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