Vol 04 - JOB.
JOB.
337 ABBOT (GEORGE. Died x648). The whole Book of Job Paraphrased, or made Easie for any to Understand. 4to. Land., 164o. 3/6. This is not by Archbishop Abbot, neither is the work of any value. This Abbot was a Member of Parliament, and his paraphrase is better than we could have expected from an M.P.; but still it is a heavy performance.
338 AMERICAN BIBLE UNION. The Book of Job. A Trans- lation from the Original Hebrew; on, the Basis of the Common and Earlier English Versions. By Thomas J. Conant, D.D., Professor of Sacred Literature in Rochester Theological Seminary.
4to. New York, x867. Lond., Trubner. S. 3/6. An excellent translation. The design did not allow of more than slender notes, but those notes are good.
339 BARNES (ALBERT. I798 — 1870). Notes on Job. Rout ledge’s edition, edited by Dr. Cumming. 2 vols., 8vo. 5/’ Blackie’s edition. 2 vols., post 8vo. 7/-
Exceedingly good. One of the best of this author’s generally valuable productions. The student should purchase this work at once. as it is absolutely necessary to his library.
34o BELLAMY (D.) Paraphrase, with observations. 4to. Lond., 1748. 4/- A collection of notes from other authors. Original works are far better.
341 BEZA (THEODORE. 1519 — 1605.) Job expounded. 8va. x59o. 7/’
Beza was the great friend and assistant of Calvin. As a commentator he lacked the profound insight and comprehensive grasp of Calvin, but as a critical scholar he is said to have been his equal if not his superior. ‘This work on Job is rare.
342 BLACKMORE (SIR R.) Paraphrase on the Book of Job, the Songs of Moses, Deborah, and David, four select Psalms, some Chapters of Isaiah, and the 3rd Chapter of Habakkuk. Folio. 1700. 3[‘
Grandiose poetry. Pope speaks of the power of Blackmore’s numbers “to soothe the soul in slumbers.” The worthy knight is not the worst of the poetical expositors, but he is bad enough. Miserable paraphrasers are ye all, ye brethren of jingling rhyme and doubtful measure.
343 CALVIN (JOHN). Sermons on the Booke of Job. Translated out of French. By A.Golding. Folio. Land., 1584. Not the same as the Commentary, but equally rich.
;:;44 CAREY (CATERET PRIAULX, M.A.) Book of Job translated, explained by Notes, and illustrated by extracts from works on Antiquities, Science, etc. Roy. 8vo. 1858. 5/’ to 7/6.
Purely critical and exegetical. The author has grappled manfully with all difficulties, and has stored up a mass of precious materials with which to illuminate a book dark from its antiquity.
345 CARYL (JOSEPH. 1602 — 1673). Exposition, with Practical Observations. 12 vols., 4to. 1648 — 1666. 55/- Also in 2 vols., folio, x676. 5o/-
Caryl must have inherited the patience of Job to have completed his stupendous task. It would be a mistake to suppose that he is at all prolix or redundant; he is only full. In the course of his expounding he has illustrated a very large portion of the whole Bible with great clearness and power. He is deeply devotional and spiritual. He gives us much, but none too much. ]aris work can scarcely be superseded or surpassed.
3.46 ,, An Abridgment of Caryl’s Exposition.
8vo. Edinb., 1836. 1/6.
We do not believe in abridgments of a book which is goad throughout.
Think of twelve large volumes condensed into one small one ! An ox in a gallipot is nothing to it.
341 CHAPPELOW (LEONARD, B.D.) A Commentary, in which is inserted the Hebrew Text and English Translation. 2 vols., 4to. 6/- Camb., 1752
Chappelow is great upon Arabic etymologies, but he is dreadfully verbose, and. really says nothing of any consequence. Chappelow and several other authors follow Schultens in the belief that the Hebrew can only be read by the light of the Arabic; they even imagine that the Book of Job was originally composed in Arabic by Job himself and then translated by someone else into the Hebrew tongue. This opened a fine field for parading their learning.
348 COLEMAN (J. NOBLE). The Book of Job; from the Hebrew. With Notes. 4to. 7/6. Lond., Nisbet & Co. 1869. S. 4/-
‘We do not value this so much as the same author’s “Psalms,” but it is, serviceable in its own way.
349 CONANT (T. J.) See American Bible Union. (No. 338.) 35° DAVIDSON (A. B., M.A. Hebrew Tutor, New Coll., Edinb.) A Commentary Grammatical and Exegetical; with a Transla- tion. Vol. I. 8vo. 7/6. Lond., Williams & Norgate. 1862.
Strict grammatical treatment of Scripture is always commendable, and in this case the results are highly valued by advanced scholars.
35x DELITZSCH (FRANZ). Biblical Commentary on Job 2:1-13 vols., 8vo. 21/- Edinb., T. & T. Clark. x866. S. 12/-
“‘ Unquestionably the most valuable work on this inexhaustibly interesting Scripture that has reached us from Germany.” — Nonconformist.
352 DURHAM (JAMES. I622 — I658). Exposition of Job 12:1-25 mo. I659. Also Glasgow, I759. Say 4/- This is a small book, and we have been unable to procure it. Orme only mentions it upon the authority of Wafts Bibliotheca. It is certain to be good, for Durham is always admirable.
353 EVANS (ALFRED) BOWEN). Lectures on the Book of Job 8:1-22 vo.
Land., Bosworth & Harrison. 1856. S. 2/-
Discourses from fourteen single verses from different parts of the patient patriarch’s history. They are quite out of the usual run of Church of England preaching, and are full of thought and originality. They would have been all the better for a little gospel, for even if his text does not look that way, we do expect a Christian minister to have something to say about his Master.
354 FENTON (THOMAS, M.A.) Annotations on Job and the Psalms,. collected from several Commentators, and methodized and im- proved. 8vo. Lond., 1732. 3/- All that will be found here is taken from others, but well selected.
355 FRY (JOHN). New Translation and Exposition, with. Notes. 8vo.
Lond., 1827. 4/6.
Written in a devout, enquiring’ spirit, with due respect to learned writers, but not with a slavish following’ of their fancies. Fry’s work is somewhat of the same character as Good’s (No. 358). We greatly esteem this exposition for its own sake, and also for the evangelical tone which pervades it.
356 GARDEN (CHARLES, D.D.) An Improved Metrical Version, with preliminary dissertation and notes. 8vo. Oxf, 1796. 3[‘ This author has not attempted a Commentary, but he has consulted a vast array of authors, and from them gathered a large number of notes. His work is of very moderate value.
357 GARNETT (JoHn. Bishop of Clogher). A Dissertation on the Book of lob, etc. 4to. Lond., 1749- 2/6.
Rubbish. This Bishop ascribes the authorship of Job to Ezekiel I
358 GOOD (JOHN MASON, M.D., F.R.S. 1764 — 1827). The Book of Job literally translated. With Notes, etc. 8vo. Lond., 18 1 2. 5/-A very valuable contribution to sacred literature. Dr. Good’s learning was, however, more extensive than accurate, and it would be dangerous to accept his translations without examination.
359 GREGORY THE GREAT. On the Book of Job. [The MAGNA MORALIA.] Translated, with Notes and Indices.
Library of the Fathers. 4 vols. ,f2 15s., or to subscribers ff2s. Lond., James Parker & Co. The Fathers are of course beyond criticism, and contain priceless gems here and there; but they spiritualize at such a rate, and also utter :so many crudities and platitudes, that if they were modern writers they would not be so greatly valued as they are. Antiquity lends enchantment.
36o HEATH (THOMAS). Essay toward a New English Version of the Book of Job. With a Commentary. 4to. Zonal., 1756. 2/6.
All that is good in this book is marred by its utterly untenable conjectures.
It ,treats Job with slender reverence. Do not lumber your shelves with it.
361 HODGES (WALTER, D.D.) Elihu: an Enquiry into the Scope and Design of the Book of Job 4:1-21 to. Land., 175o. 12mo., third edition, 1756.
2/-Based upon the absurd supposition that Elihu was the Son of God himself, and Job a type of the Savior. Poor Job’s book has been the subject of trials as numerous as those of its hero, and Hodges has given the finishing stroke. The course of dreaming can no further go. Hodge the village Methodist could never have raved at the rate c f Dr. Hodge, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.
362 HENGSTENBERG (E. W.) See under Ecclesiastes.
363 HULBERT (CHARLES AUGUSTUS, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Harthwaite, Yorks.) The Gospel Revealed to Job. Thirty Lectures, with Notes. 8vo. Lond., Longmans. 1853. S. 3/6. An unusually good book; exceeding1y comprehensive and helpful in many ways. The author aimed at usefulness and has succeeded wonderfully. We wonder that his work has not been better known.
364 HUTCHESON (GEORGE). An Exposition upon Job, being the sum of 316 Lectures. Folio. 12/- to 14/-Lond., 1669.
Whenever the student sees a Commentary by Hutcheson let him · buy it, for we know of no author who is more thoroughly helpful to thee minister of the Word. He distils the text, and gives his readers the quintessence, ready for use.
365 HUTCHINSON (R. E., M.D., M.R.C.S.E., Surgeon. Major Bengal Army).
Thoughts on the Book of Job. Zonal., S. Bagster & Sons. [In the press.
1875.] 365 KITTO (JOHN’, D.D.) “Job and the Poetical Books.” In Daily Bible Illustrations. (See No. 41.) Exceeding1y instructive. Mast charming reading.
367 LANGE’S COMMENTARY. The Book of Job. A Commentary by Otto Zockler, D.D., Professor of Theology at Greifswald. Translated from the German, with -Additions by Prof. L. J. Evans, D.D., Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. Imp. 8vo. 21/-, or to subscribers 15/- Edinb., T. & T. Clark. I874.
Contains a large collection of available material, and, if within a minister’s means, should be a foundation book in his library. We are very far from endorsing all Zockler’s remarks, but the volume is an important one.
368 LEE (SAMUFL, D.D. 1713 — 1853). The Book of Job translated; with Introduction and Commentary. 8vo. Lond., x837. 7/6. Barnes says, “This work is not what might have been expected from the learning and reputation of Prof Lee. It abounds with Arabic learning, which is scattered with ostentatious profuseness through the volume, but which often contributes little to the elucidation of the text. It is designed for the critical scholar rather than the general reader.”
369 NOYES (G R., D.D.) A New Translation, with Notes. 12mo.
Boston, U.S. [N.D.] S. 3/-
We have been informed that Dr. Noyes belongs to the Unitarian body, but we fail to see any trace of Arian or Socinian views in this volume. We do not agree with all that he says, but he strikes us as being an honest, able, and accurate translator and commentator, worthy to stand in the foremost rank.
37o PETERS (CHARLES, A.M. Died I777). A Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job. Wherein the Account given in that book by the author of The Divine Legation Of Moses Demonstrated, &°c., is particularly considered; and a Future State shewn to have been the Popular Belief of the Ancient Hebrews 4:1-16 to. Lond., I75I. 2/6. Of a controversial character; mainly written against Warburton and/.e Clerc, and .as those authors are now almost forgotten, answers to them have lost their interest. Peters was an eminently learned man, and well versed in argument; but his work is ,of very small use for homiletical purposes.
371 QUARLES (FRANCIS). Job Militant, with Meditations, Divine and Moral. 4to. x624. 5/- A Poem in Quarles’ usual inflated, but withal instructive, manner.
372 ROBINSON (T., D.D.) A Homiletic Commentary on Job.
[In progress, x875. Being Part IV. of the Preacher’s Com- mentary, 1/-] Lond., Dickinson. This we hope will be of use to preachers, but we have hardly enough before us to judge of it.
373 SCOTT (ThoMAs). The Book of Job in English Verse, with Remarks.
4to. Lond., 177I. Reprinted, 8vo., I733. S. 2/3.
Here we have Job in rhyme- “There lived an Arab of distinguish’d fame, In Idumean Uz; and Job his name. Of spotless manners, with a soul sincere, Evil his hate, and God alone his fear.” This will hardly do. To translate Job in metre needed a Pope or a Dryden, and Thomas Scott was neither: he has, however, done his best, the best could have done no more. This is not Thomas Scott the great Expositor, but a Dissenting Minister at Ipswich.
374 SENAULT (J. F.) A Paraphrase. 4to. Lond., [648. 3/6.
Senault was a famous preacher of the Oratory in Paris, who, from the character of his works, would seem to have been almost a Protestant. His writings were highly esteemed in their day, and translated into English.
375 SMITH (ELIZABETH). The Book of Job translated from the Hebrew, with Annotations. 8vo. Lond., 181o. 1/6.
“A good English version of Job, produced chiefly by the aid of Parkhurst’s Lexicon.” — Orme.
376 STATHER (LIEUT.-COL., W. C.) The Book of Job, in English Verse; with Notes. 12mo. Land., E. Marlborough & Co. z859. S. x/-
We do not like Job in rhyme. We know of no rhyming version of any part of Scripture, except the Psalms, which can be called a success. Certainly this is not one. The author’s notes deserve consideration.
377 STOCK (JosEPH, D.D. Bishop of Killalia). The Book of Job, Metrically arranged, and newly translated, with Notes. 4to. z8o5. 4/’ The work of six weeks ! Well may Magee say that it is full of “precipitances, mistakes, and mutilations.” This was a bishop and a Doctor of Divinity ! It takes a great man to perpetrate a very great folly. A metrical translation of Job with Notes in six weeks ! In that time slacks bloom to perfection. Perhaps that fact operated on our author. Let this blundering haste serve as a warning to young divines.
378 UMBREIT (FRIEDRICH, W. K. Prof. of Theol. in Heidelberg.
1795 — 186o). A New Version of the Book of Job; with Notes. Translated by the Rev. John Hamilton Gray, M.A.
2 vols., 12mo. 8/- Edinb., T. & T. Clark.
Useful philologically; but Barnes would supply far more in that direction, and spiritual exposition besides.
379 VAN HAGEN (MRS. HENRY). Evenings in the Land of Uz; a Comment on Job. Second Edition. 12mo. x843. 1/6.
Isaac Taylor commends this volume as one which “disclaiming all purpose of critical exposition, aims only under the guidance of Christian feeling and experience to follow and to unfold the spiritual intention of this rich portion of Holy Scripture.” Such an introduction must have helped to sell the work and carry it speedily to the second edition.
380 WAGNER (GEORGE). Sermons on the Book of Job. Cr. 8vo.
Lond., Nisbet & Co. I863. S. 3/-
Wagner’s sermons are simple and plain, devout and instructive. We have here nothing very fresh, but everything is sound and good.
381 WEMYSS (THomAs). Job and his Times. New Version, with Notes.
8vo. Lond., 1839. 2/6.
Barnes says : — ” This is designed to be a popular work. It is not so much of the nature of a Commentary as a collection of fragments and brief essays on various topics referred to in the Book of Job. It is chiefly valuable for its illustration of the religion of the time of Job, the arts and sciences, the manners and customs, etc.” It lacks lucid arrangement, and furnishes comparatively little illustration of the difficulties of the text.