By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - But when I prayed the old Office of the Dead, I was struck by the lessons for Matins, all from the Book of Job, to be heard in the early darkness before the sunrise... They do not compromise with sorrow. “Spare me, Lord, for my days are nothing.."... “What is man, that you make much of him, or set your heart on him?” (Jb. 7:16). Such words do not ring with the wonder and joy of the psalmist, who adds that God has made man “a little less than the angels.” (Ps. 8:6) ...