The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . rea of base, 13 acres ; perpendicular height, 479feet; being 119 feet higher than St. Pauls, containing six times the mass ofstone of
The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . rea of base, 13 acres ; perpendicular height, 479feet; being 119 feet higher than St. Pauls, containing six times the mass ofstone of Plymouth breakwater; and (according to Herodotus) it occupied 20years in building, and 1,600 talents of silver were expended in the mere item offurnishing the workmen with purges, leeks, and onions. The tombs of Egypt in general are on a scale of gieat extent and magnificence,and are usually built, not in cultivated places, but in or near deserts. They areoften hewn in the solid rock, and are highly adorned. The excavated tractof rocky tombs at Thebes extends about two miles in length, and, as in the 434 ILLUSTRATIONS, JOB III. 14. neighbourhood of Jizeh, there are deep shafts or walls, which are the approachesto deeper chambers, and to an endless number of winding recesses. (See Enter-taining Knowledge, Egyptian Antiquities, vol. ii., p. 150, &c.) The annexeddrawing will illustrate the correctness of the expression, desolations, or, TOMB OF BEN! HASSAN. The following extract from a book, entitled, Israel in Egypt, also affords anexcellent illustration of the verse before us. It shows us, just what the textwould lead us to infer, how entirely ancient kings devoted themselves to the workof building their tombs, as though it were the one great business of their reigns;also, how often they were surprised by death whilst still in the act of buildingthem; and likewise, how well such places may be called desolations :— The excavation and decoration of the tomb of a
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