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Title: Illustrations of The Book of Job

Author: William Blake

Release Date: November 22, 2009 [EBook #30526]
[This file last updated on July 31, 2010]

Language: English

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ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE
BOOK OF JOB

INVENTED AND ENGRAVED
BY WILLIAM BLAKE

A NEW EDITION

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON & COMPANY
1903

NOTE

This Issue is reproduced in reduced facsimile from the original Edition
published by William Blake in the year 1826.

[Illustration:
ILLUSTRATIONS of The BOOK of JOB
Invented & Engraved by William Blake 1825

London Published as the Act directs March 8:1825
by William Blake N^o 3 Fountain Court, Strand]

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[Illustration:
Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name

Thus did Job continually

There was a Man in the Land of Uz whose Name was Job. & that Man was
perfect & upright & one that feared God & eschewed Evil & there was
born unto him Seven Sons & Three Daughters

The Letter Killeth The Spirit giveth Life

It is Spiritually Discerned]

[Illustration:
I beheld the Ancient of Days Hast thou considered my Servant Job

The Angel of the Divine Presence

I shall see God

We shall awake up

Thou art our Father

in thy Likeness

When the Almighty was yet with me. When my Children were about me

There was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before
the Lord & Satan came also among them to present himself before the
Lord]

[Illustration:
The Fire of God is fallen from Heaven

And the Lord said unto Satan. Behold All that he hath is in thy Power

Thy Sons and thy Daughters were eating & drin