"30. He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine "(Job's) "hands."
What does this mean? Where was "the island of the innocent"? What was the way which the wicked, who did not live on "the island of the innocent," had trodden, but which was swept away in the flood as the bridge Bifrost was destroyed, in the Gothic legends, by the forces of Muspelheim?
And Job replies again (chap. xxiii):
"16. For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
"17. Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face."
That is to say, why did I not die before this great calamity fell on the earth, and before I saw it?
Job continues (chap. xxvi):
"5. Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
"6. Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
The commentators tell us that the words, "dead things are formed under the waters," mean literally, "the souls of the dead tremble from under the waters."