He refuses to believe
that the tower of Siloam fell only on the wickedest men in the city.
He refers to his past experience of mankind. He thinks honest poverty
is without honor at the hands of successful fraud. He says (chap.
xii):
"5. He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp _despised in
the thought of him that is at ease_."
But--
"6. The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are
secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly."
And he can not see how, if this calamity has come upon men for their
sins, that the innocent birds and beasts, and even the fish in the
heated and poisoned waters, are perishing:
"7. But ask now the beasts," ("for verily," he has just said, "ye are
the men, and wisdom will die with you,") "and _they_ shall teach
thee; and the fowls of the air, and _they_ shall tell thee:
"8. Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of
the sea shall declare it unto thee.
"9. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath
wrought this?"
Wrought what? Job's disease? No.
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