Expositor's Bible
The Book of Job
Description:... "It is an interesting work on an interesting subject....Dr. Watson designates it 'the first great poem of the soul in its mundane conflict, facing the inexorable of sorrow, change, pain and death, and feeling within itself at one and the same time weakness and energy, the hero and the serf, brilliant hopes, terrible fears,' and he further asserts that 'with entire veracity and amazing force this book represents the never-ending drama renewed in every generation and in every genuine life.' In his exposition of this sublime book, this grand and divinely-inspired poem, Dr. Watson is very happy. In an attractive and elegant style he elucidates its character and wisely comments on its contents. No one we think can read his masterly exposition without feeling thankful to him for its preparation. We heartily commend it therefore to all interested in Bible study. The learned and the unlearned can alike read it with profit." -The Reformed Quarterly Review
"To be commended." -The Missionary Herald
"Fresh and picturesque...The Book of Job is best understood when interpreted in the manner of these expository lectures, and has fallen into good hands to secure an able and appreciative setting forth....It is captivating in style, and sound in its subject matter. It rivets the attention, and imparts a thrill such as comes only from mental contact with a profound and potent thinker. We have gone through it with interest almost amounting to eagerness, and rise from its perusal with a heightened regard for that sublimest of all poems in the world's literature, the book of Job." -The Bibliotheca Sacra
"His object is not to elucidate obscure passages, but to place as vividly as possible before English readers the main ideas and the train of argument contained in this Book. Dr. Watson rightly protests against the notion that the literary and the religious aspects of the work are to be separated - the moral teacher and the artist are, as he says, indissolubly connected, and neither can be understood apart from the other." -The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature
"The Book of Job not only shifts faith in the Divine justice to a fresh basis, but ventures on a universalism which stood in sharp contrast to the narrowness of the old State religion. The author of the Book went beyond the Hebrew family for his hero, to make it clear that man, as man, is in direction relation to God. The Psalms and Book of Proverbs might be read by Israelites, and the belief still retained that God would prosper Israel alone, at any rate in the end. The man of Uz, the Arabian sheik, outside the sacred fraternity of the tribes, is presented as a fearer of the true God - His trusted witness and servant. The creed of Hebraism had ceased to guide thought, and lead the soul to strength. A new theology was certainly needed for the crisis of the time." -The Literary Digest
"Dr. Watson remarks in the opening of the volume that The Book of Job has been the parent tree from which a hundred shoots have sprung, from the Lamentations of Jeremiah down to 'Sartor Resartus' and the 'Story of an African Farm,' but there is a stranger thing than that. The Book of Job is so inspiring that it has created some commentaries on itself that are truly works of art in literature. And Dr. Watson's own work is one of these." -The Expository Times
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