. Notes, critical, illustrative, and practical, on the book of Job: with a new translation, and an introductory dissertation;. ns lying in their places of lonelygrandeur. Job felt it would be anhonor to be associated. Compared with his present condition it was oneof dignity ; and he earnestly wishedthat it might have been his lot thusearly to have been consigned to thefellowship of the dead. It may besome confirmation of this view to re-mark, that the land of Edom, nearwhich Job is supposed to have lived,contains at this day some of the mostwonderful sepulchral monuments ofthe world. Comp. Not
. Notes, critical, illustrative, and practical, on the book of Job: with a new translation, and an introductory dissertation;. ns lying in their places of lonelygrandeur. Job felt it would be anhonor to be associated. Compared with his present condition it was oneof dignity ; and he earnestly wishedthat it might have been his lot thusearly to have been consigned to thefellowship of the dead. It may besome confirmation of this view to re-mark, that the land of Edom, nearwhich Job is supposed to have lived,contains at this day some of the mostwonderful sepulchral monuments ofthe world. Comp. Notes on 1. The following cuts, takenfrom Laborde, will give an illustra-tion of those tombs. It is true thatthose sepulchres are of a much laterdate than tiie time of Job, nor couldthe art of sculpture in his time havebeen such as these specimens exhibit;but it is interesting to find such illus-trations of the general idea in thevery region where Job lived. Thefollowing cut is the facade of a tombin Pelra, in Idumea, and will illus-trate the magnificence which wagsometimes shown in their structure. CHAPTER III. 61. CHAPTER III. S3 Ipif°™S cut will illustrate the interior of such tombs. I, i, also from
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