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Q. What did Job's wife advise him to do?
A. To curse God, and die. Job ii, 9.

Q. What did Job answer?

A. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? Job ii, 10.

Q. How did he bear his afflictions?

A. In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Q. Who came to visit him?

A. His three friends. Job ii, 11.

Q. What did they do when they saw him?

A. They lifted up their voice, and wept. Job ii, 12.

Q. How long did they sit by him in silence?

A. Seven days. Job ii, 13.

Q. Why?

A. For they saw that his grief was very great.

Q. What then occurred?

A. After Job had spoken, his friends addressed him, and Job answered them.

Q. What did they suppose was the cause of his calamities?

A. Some hidden sins of Job.

Q. To whom did Job appeal in his integrity?
A. Unto God.

Q. How did the Lord answer him?

A. Out of the whirlwind. Job xxxviii, 1.

Q. What confession did Job make to the Lord?

A. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? Job xl, 4.

Q. Whom did the Lord then address?

A. The friends of Job. Job xlii, 7.

Q. Why was his wrath kindled against them?

A. Because they had not spoken the thing that was right.

Q. What did he command them to offer?

A. A burnt-offering for themselves. Job xlii, 8. Q. Who should pray for them?

A. Job.

Q. What did the Lord give Job after this?

A. Twice as much as he had before. Job xlii, 10.

Q. How long did he live after this?

A. A hundred and forty years. Job xlii, 16.

LESSON XLIV.

Psalms.

Question. What is the meaning of the Hebrew name of the book of Psalms?

Answer. The Book of Hymns or Praises.

Q. Why did it bear this name?

A. Because the greater part of the Psalms consists of praises to God.

Q. By what other name is the book known?

A. The Psalms of David.

Q. Why is it so called?

A. Because David wrote more of them than any other person.

Q. What other persons are supposed to have written the Psalms?

A. Moses, Solomon, Asaph, Heman, Ethan, Jeduthun, and the three sons of Korah.

Q. Who was the first writer of psalms?

A. Moses.

Q. On what occasion did he write a song of praise?
A. When the Israelites passed dry shod over
the Red Sea. Exod. xv.

Q. Who probably collected and arranged the Psalms?
A. David, all that were written in his time, and
Ezra, after the return from captivity.

Q. What use was made of these Psalms?

A. They were sung by the Jews as a part of religious worship.

Q. Whom did David appoint to sing psalms in the worship of the tabernacle ?

A. A chosen company of Levites. 1 Chron. vi, 31.

Q. What was the object of this service?

A. To thank and praise the Lord God of Israel. 1 Chron. xvi, 4.

Q. For what did the Jews become celebrated?
A. For their melodious singing.

Q. What did the inhabitants of Babylon request of them when they were captives there?

A. Sing us one of the songs of Zion. Psalm cxxxvii, 3.

Q. What is the meaning of the word Higgaion at the close of some verses in the Psalms?

A. Meditation.

Q. What of Selah?

A. To raise, to elevate.

Q. What was the use of these words?

A. To denote the elevation of the voice or instrument in singing, and to call especial attention to the passage as worthy of serious reflection.

me.

Q. What do the Psalms teach us of the Omniscience of God? A. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Psa. cxxxix, 1–4. Q. What do they teach us of the Omnipresence of God? A. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness

hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day. Psa. cxxxix, 8-12.

Q. How should brothers and sisters dwell together? A. How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalm cxxxiii, 1.

Q. What is meant by unity?
A. Harmony and love.

Q. What will rest on such a family?

A. The blessing of the Lord, even life for evermore. Psa. cxxxiii, 3.

2. What is said of the end of the wicked?

1. The transgressors shall be destroyed to

gether: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. Psa. xxxvii, 38.

Q. What of the death of the righteous?

A. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright for the end of that marr is peace. Psa. Xxxvii, 37.

Q. How highly did the Psalmist prize the word of God? A. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Psalm cxix, 72.

Q. How did he treat God's word?

A. O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Psa. cxix, 97.

Q. How did he feel because men disobeyed it?
A. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, be-

cause they keep not thy law. Psa. cxix, 136. Q. What is said of those who obey the commands of God? A. In keeping of them there is great reward. Psa. xix, 11.

Q. What should our behavior be in the house of God?

A. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. Psa. lxxxix, 7.

Q. What has God promised to the fatherless?

A. To be a Father of the fatherless. Psalm lxviii, 5.

Q. What has he promised when father and mother forsake us?

A. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. Psalm xxvii, 10.

Q. How will the Lord support the good man in the hour of death?

Though I walk through the valley of the

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