xxxi. 26 suggests a date subsequent to the origination of the title

‘Jehovah (God) of Hosts.’ See appendix to Isa. i. in my commentary.

Footnote 89:

Mr. Tomkins compares Job’s mode of life with that of Abram before his departure from Kharran (_Studies on the Times of Abraham_, 1878, p. 61).

Footnote 90:

I cannot go quite so far as Lagarde, who argues from the use of ‘Eloah’ (instead of ‘Elohim’ and ‘Jehovah’) that the doubters have cast off belief in all the supposed various manifestations of divinity in the world, and merely retain a comfortless belief in τὸ θεῖον. ‘Numen quoddam esse non negant, sed’ &c. _Psalterium Hieronymi_, pp. 155-6 (‘Corollarium’).

Footnote 91:

Job xv. 19 certainly implies the siege and capture of Jerusalem by some foreign foe. Comp. Joel iii. (Heb. iv.) 17.

Footnote 92:

Dr. Barth quotes Am. i. 6, ii. 1-3, ix. 11, 15 in proof that ‘deportation’ also took place in the ‘pre-Assyrian’ time. But, in fact, Amos is not ‘pre-Assyrian.’

Footnote 93:

It is no sufficient objection that the ravages of the Chaldæans in Job are on a small scale, nor yet that side by side with them are mentioned the Sabeans, surely not those of S. Arabia (Noldeke), but those of N. Arabia (Delitzsch), detachments of whom might have encamped on the borders of Edom. Comp. Wetzstein in Delitzsch’s _Iob_, ed. 2, p. 596 &c.

Footnote 94:

I write this with deference to the contrary opinion of Delitzsch, who is, however, too prejudiced against late dates, and biassed by his belief in the authenticity of the Song of Hezekiah. If the Book of Job be pre-Hezekian, it is of course natural to throw it back to the age of Solomon.

Footnote 95:

_Theologisch Tijdschrift_, 1873, p. 538.

Footnote 96:

_Das Buch Hiob_ (1874), p. xlix.

Footnote 97:

_Das Buch Hiob_ (1842), p. 276.