Note 14 — Chapter I · JOB’S CALAMITY; THE OPENING OF THE DIALOGUES. (CHAPS. I.-XIV.)

Thomson has finely but inaccurately paraphrased this, changing the localities:—

‘In Cairo’s crowded streets

The impatient merchant, wondering, waits in vain,

And Mecca saddens at the long delay.’

(Summer, 980-2; of the caravan which perished in the storm.)