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I am all right _now_. Have I not wasted time? Are there not years which the locusts have eaten? Might not this emancipation have come sooner? Why should I not always have been free? Is it any vindication of God's dealings with Job that at the end he gets back houses and brethren and lands? No; that is a mere appendage to the story. The patriarch wants to learn, and _we_ want to learn, why he was afflicted at all. We are not satisfied merely because the grey is followed by the gold. We wish to know that the grey has _made_ the gold. The song of Moses may tell how the peace came _after_ the storm; but the song of the Lamb alone can say,
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God answered Job _out of_ the whirlwind.