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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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[Illustration: 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: 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]
[Illustration: 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]
[Illustration: 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]
[Illustration: 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