...life; the one spends it in heaven with his Creator while the other spends it in hell with the devil. "Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over mej When His lamp shone upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness"...

...the more outraged he becomes. He roars his grief, he insists on his innocence, he recalls the time "when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me" (29.5) and how he used to support the poor, the fatherless, the widow, how he was eyes to the blind...

...thought had passed my heart, God hath let me go, and I am fallen. Oh ! thought I, that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ! Job xxix. 2. 151. Then again, being loth and unwilling to perish, I began to compare my sin i compare...