If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? — The word “if,” here introduced by our translators, greatly obscures the sense. The mea…

[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain ?
] If he was that wicked person, that hypocrite, Bildad and his other f…

How little need we have of pastimes, and how great our need is to redeem time, when it runs so quickly toward eternity! How vain are the enjoyments…

After ble ed Job has shown that it is not his intention to argue with God, he proposes the principal i ue in dispute between him and his adversarie…