Paris, 1 December, 1833.
[1] This preface is first printed in the edition of 1899, from which the present version is made.—t.
[2] "I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud."—Job, xxx. 15.
"My days have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey."—Job, ix. 26.
"Man cometh forth like a flower and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state."—Job, xiv. 2.—t.