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 and here observe that the word for A.V.'s 'flood' (Job, l.c.) is not mabbūl but nāhār. Hitzig and Delitzsch find another in xxxi. 33. But ādām in Job always means 'men:' in xv. 7, 8, where the first man is referred to, he is not named. The reference in xxxi. 33 is not to hiding sins from God, but from man. I think, however, that the Prologue implies a general acquaintance with some current descriptions of the patriarchal period—the 'golden age' to men of a more advanced civilisation.

It is remarkable, what interesting parallels are afforded by the prophets of the Assyrian period. Isaiah, as might be expected, contains the largest number (see The Prophecies of Isaiah, ed. 3, ii. 243); but Hosea follows close after. Compare especially—

Isa. xix. 5 (certainly the original }        { Job xiv. 11 ('the waters of Job, l.c., where the special     }  with  { fail from the sea,' i.e. reference to the sea-like Nile is    }        { any inland body of dropped)                             }        { water)

}       { Job xi. 6 (God's wisdom Isa. xxviii. 29                     }   —   { marvellous; see Merx,                                     }        { and Isaiah, ii. 154)

Hos. x. 13 (combined with Prov.     }   —   { Job iv. 8 ('ploughing xxii. 8)                            }        { iniquity,' &c.)

Hos. vi. 1 (or Deut. xxxii. 39)     }   —   { Job v. 18 ('he maketh                                     }        { sore and bindeth up,' &c.)

Hos. v. 14, xiii. 7, 8              }   —   { Job x. 16 (God compared                                     }        { to a lion)

Hos. xiii. 12 (or Deut. xxxii. 34)  }   —   { Job xiv. 17 ('transgression                                    }        { sealed up,' &c.)

Am. iv. 13, v. 8 (the comparison    }        { Job ix. 8, 9 ('that treadeth suggests that v. 8, 9 stood         }        { upon the heights immediately after iv. 13 when       }   —   { of the sea; that Job was written, and that 'the      }        { maketh the Bear, sea,' i.e. the upper ocean, stood   }        { Orion, and the Pleiades') for 'the earth')

Comp. also Am. v. 8, ix. 6 with Job xii. 15; Am. ii. 9 with Job xviii. 16.