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h is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7.

sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13.

There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job xxxii. 8. As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James ii. 26. Spirit is a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving, do subsist. Locke.

y the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job xxxviii. 27. Do not blast my springing hopes. Rowe. O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born. Pope.

To stick out. (a) To project; to be prominent. "His bones that were not seen stick out." Job xxxiii. 21. (b) To persevere in a purpose; to hold out; as, the garrison stuck out until relieved. [Colloq.]v.i. to stick it out. -- To stick to, to be persevering in holding to; as, to stick to a party or cause. "The advanta…

ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Job xiv. 8,9.

My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him Job xxxiii. 13. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. Denham.

dy. "O sudden wo!" Chaucer. "For fear of sudden death." Shak. Sudden fear troubleth thee. Job xxii. 10.

Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14).

; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. M. Arnold.

Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.

that. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee. Job xxii. 21.

or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Job xiii. 15. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. Milton.

sed impersonally; as, it thundered continuously. Canst thou thunder with a voice like him Job xl. 9.

Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

othorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. -- Tree jobber (Zoöl.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] -- Tree kangaroo. (Zoöl.) See Kangaroo. -- Tree lark (Zoöl.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tree lizard (Zoöl.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards (Dendrosauria) comprising th…

, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

o ends. There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty them understanding. Job xxxii. 8. The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the significati…

orized Version of the Scriptures. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow Job xxxix. 10.

y erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways. And that man [Job] was perfect and upright. Job i. 1.