Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns awa...y from evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have bles...sed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousa...nd yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obe...dient instrument of a remote will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job an...d a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!--subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! ...and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »