He was such a worried man, so sure something was about to go wrong. Every time the clock struck the hour, he counted the strikes, fearing the clock would make a mistake.
However inspired they may be, your holy books were not written by God, they were written by men. However inspired your holy books may be, they do not represent the will of God, they represent the will of men, and so are flawed, imperfect—human. Read them, learn from them, see their strengths and see their weaknesses, then set them down and continue.