"10. Therefore snares are around about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
"11. Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee."
"13. And thou sayest, How doth God know? Can he judge through the dark cloud?
"14. Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15. Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
"16. Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood?"
"20. Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth."
"24. He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold." (Douay ver.)
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What is the meaning of all this? And why this association of the flint-stones, referred to in so many legends; and the gold believed to have fallen from heaven in torrents, is it not all wonderful and inexplicable upon any other theory than that which I suggest?