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  COMMENTARY ON JOB 1-4
  by Chuck Smith
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Shall we turn now to the book of Job, chapter 1.

As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of
the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into
different divisions. The first five books comprising what is often
called the Pentateuch, the books of the law. The next several books are
historic as they deal with the history of the nation of Israel from the
time that they have come out of Egypt and they begin as a nation in the
land. And it covers that period of history while they are in the land of
Israel through the Babylonian captivity and through the repatriation and
the regathering again to Israel. And the books of history take us up to
about 400 B.C.

Now we are entering into a third part of the Old Testament, the books
that are known as the books of poetry. And these include Job, Psalms,
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. And they are Hebrew poetry. And
in Hebrew poetry, it is unlike our English poetry in that Hebrew poetry
does not rhyme words, but actually gives sort of parallel thoughts or
contrasting thoughts. And their sense of literature and poetry is found
not in the rhyming of a word or not in a meter, but in the thoughts
themselves. The paralleling thoughts are the rhyming thoughts. The words
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