"24. He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
"25. They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man."
More darkness, more groping in the dark, more of that staggering like drunken men, described in the American legends:
"Lo, mine eye," says Job, (xiii, 1,) "hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. What ye know, the same do I know also."
We have all seen it, says Job, and now you would come here with your platitudes about God sending all this to punish the wicked:
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"4. But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value."
Honest Job is disgusted, and denounces his counselors with Carlylean vigor:
"11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
"12. Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.