righteous will be preserved from evil, and inherit the land. Thus God suffers wickedness for a time, only the more signally to manifest His righteousness in overthrowing it. That is the first, the simplest, the most obvious solution of the difficulty. In the Book of Job, where the sorrow and the perplexity are the darkest, where the question lies upon the heart, “heavy as lead, and deep almost as life,” the sufferer finds no such consolation. As a Gentile, he has no need to reconcile his experience