And God buries men in the caves
in which they sought shelter.
"23. He increaseth the nations, _and destroyeth them:_ he enlargeth
the nations, and straiteneth them again.
"24. He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the
earth, and causeth them to wander _in a wilderness where there is no
way_.
"25. _They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to
stagger like a drunken man_."
More darkness, more groping in the dark, more of that staggering like
drunken men, described in the American legends:
"Lo, mine eye," says Job, (xiii, 1,) "_hath seen all this, mine ear
hath heard_ and understood it. What ye know, the same do I know also."
We have all seen it, says Job, and now you would come here with your
platitudes about God sending all this to punish the wicked:
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"4. But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value."
Honest Job is disgusted, and denounces his counselors with Carlylean
vigor:
"11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? _and his dread fall
upon you?_
"12. Your remembrances are like unto _ashes_, your bodies to bodies
of _clay_.
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