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Job 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is anonymous; most scholars believe it was written around 6th century BCE. [3] [4] This chapter belongs to the prologue of the book,comprising Job 1:1–2:13. [5]
A scroll of the Book of Job, in Hebrew. The Book of Job consists of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. [4] It is common to view the narrative frame as the original core of the book, enlarged later by the poetic dialogues and discourses, and sections of the book such as the Elihu speeches and the wisdom poem of chapter 28 as late insertions, but ...
Job ultimately condemns all their counsel, beliefs, and critiques of him as false. God then appears to Job and his friends out of a whirlwind. God rebukes the three friends and gives them instruction for the remission of sin, followed by Job being restored to an even better condition than his former wealthy state (Job 42:10–17).
[fn 9] Examined in this light, the Septuagint text seems to express a particular theological tendency, evident in “emendations” of a dogmatic nature, which subsequently permeates the entire Book of Job. The main lines of this new theological approach to the “problem of Job” may be summarized as follows: In the first place, by presenting ...
Job's final speech in the third cycle of debate mainly comprises chapters 26 to 27, but in the silence of his friends, Job continues his speech until chapter 31. [12] Chapter 26 can be divided into two parts: [13] Job's rebuke to his friends: rejection to Bildad's arguments (verses 1–4) Job's praise for God's majectic power (verses 5–14) [13]
The lament complements Job's initial cry (verses 1–10) with a series of rhetorical questions: posing an argument that because he was born (verse 10), the earliest chance he had of escaping this life of misery would have been to be still born (verses 11–12, 16), whereas in verses 13–19 Job regards death as 'falling into a peaceful sleep in ...
The Book of Job was an important influence upon Blake's writings and art; [11] Blake apparently identified with Job, as he spent his lifetime unrecognized and impoverished. Harold Bloom has interpreted Blake's most famous lyric, The Tyger , as a revision of God's rhetorical questions in the Book of Job concerning Behemoth and Leviathan. [ 12 ]
Job's Wife [1] is a play by Philip Begho, written in verse. It was the winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Drama Prize in 2002. [ 2 ] It is an interpretation of the biblical Book of Job .