Irresistible power, 141.
Isaiah compared with Job, 10.
Jauf, 20.
Jehovah, servant of, 15.
Jewel in the lotus, 364.
Jewish Church, 14.
Job, a real man, 22; religion of, 24; character of, 28; early prosperity of, 29; dream-life of, 30; when he lived, 31; trials of, 63; type of righteous sufferer, 67; his integrity, 72; his faith, 74; his wife, 75; his friends, 78; curses his day, 89; praises death, 92; rebuked for scepticism, 154; prophetic, 208; idealised, 337; made priest, 410.
Justice, of man no refuge, 86; in every matter, 237; physical argument for, 238.
Kings, their favour, 357, 369.
Kinship with Eloah, 181.
Knowledge not the main thing, 390.
Koheleth, 38.
Letters and theology, 4.
Life, is it for enjoyment? 52; meaning of, in the Gospels, 61; as vigour, 260; principle of man's, 382; rewards life, 409.
Materialism, 54.
Mediator, desire for a, 147.
Mephistopheles, 36.
_Mezbele_, 72.
Microcosm and macrocosm, 402.
Mill, J. S., quoted, 256.
Mining, 314.
Modern science, 165.
Natural religion, 25; source of, 178; ends with a sigh, 290.
Nature and God, 166, 287, 301.
Necessity, 130.
Obedience, reward of, 42.
Ode cited by Elihu, 370.
Oriental, society, ideas of, 50; life, contrasts of, 72; character, 131.
Orthodoxy uncorrupted, 197.
Pain, not evil, 52-5; and imprudence, 59; mystery of, 120.
Paley quoted, 53.
Palgrave, W. G., quoted, 20.
Personality, 12.
Pessimism, 38.
Pharisee and Sadducee, germs of, 377.
Phœnix, 324.
Piety, daring, 133.
Pity of it, the, 229.
"Positive evil," 77.
Poverty of spirit, 196.
Precursors of Job, 3.
Primitive religion of Semites, 180.
Probation, 47.
Problem, of the book, 11; universal, 403.
Prophet, the, a critic, 246.
Proverbs, chaps. iii., viii., 9.
Providence, enigma of, 207; special, 225.
Psalms, individualism in, 12.
Punishment of sin, 59.
Rabbi, the, 368.
Real and ideal, 152.
Religion, decay of, 16; evolution of, 180.
Renan quoted, 399.
Revelation, 117.
Righteousness, man not saved by, 388.
Ruskin, J., quoted, 372, 374, 396.
Sabeans, 65.
Sacrifice of Christ, 62.
Sacrificed classes, 170.
Satan, 34; Dante's, 35; Milton's, 35; power of, 36; challenged by the Almighty, 40; his question, 42; disappears, 71.
Scepticism, 41, 140.
Schopenhauer, 37, 39.
Semites, primitive religion of, 180.
Servant of Jehovah, 15.
Sheol, life in, 183; no hope in, 211; no penalty in, 255.
Sin, punishment of, 59; does it bring suffering? 157.
Sincerity of mind, 169.
Skin for skin, 69.
Smith, Dr. Robertson, 43.
Social, meliorism, 46; tyranny, 331.
Sons of the Elohim, 37.
Soulless human beings, 70.
Special pleading for God, 171.
Spencer, H., 52.
Spiritual evolution, 58.
Suicide, 97, 124.
Teman, 15.
Theology and letters, 4; new beginning in, 15.
Theosophy, 39.
Total depravity, 195.
Trouble, wherefore? 282.
Universal problem, 403.
Uz, 19.
Wisdom, of the past, 138, 192; quest of, 313.
Woman's life, 75.
Worldly prosperity offered to Job, 137, 159.
Zophar, his character, 102; his first speech, 154; no mere echo, 161; his second speech, 243; his third speech, 309.
Transciber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been fixed throughout.
Inconsistent hyphenation is as in the original text.