Excerpt from The Problem of Pain: A Study in the Book of Job Nothing that any one has ever said or will ever say about the book of Job can remotely approach the titanic impression made by the book itself. It is therefore all the more to be regretted that it is so little known. Ye have heard of the patience of Job. Many people have heard no more about Job than that, and do not even know enough of the book to know that it is his endurance rather than his patience that stamps him as the hero that he is, and that is commended in the well-known words of St. James It is therefore at least as important to present the book as to discuss it. For this reason I have woven the translation continuously through the discussion, so that neither reader nor discussion can ever wander very far from the book itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.