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Job Is Utterly Righteous (1:1–5) The First Heavenly Court Scene (1:6–12) The First Test - Loss of Possessions and Family (1:13–19) Job's First Reaction to His Loss and the Narrator's Verdict (1:20–22) The Second Heavenly Court Scene (2:1–6) The Second Test - Ghastly Sores (2:7–10) The Arrival and Mission of the Friends (2:11–13)
Verse 1 opens with Job summing up his speech in chapter 12 before he addresses his friends in verses 2–12, contrasting Job's stance ("but I", verse 3) and his friends' ("but you", verse 4). [17] Job calls for silence from his friends (verse 5, 13) as he wants to 'boldly pursue truth as he comes before God'. [ 18 ]
A major revision, the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVue), was released in 2021. Used broadly among biblical scholars , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] the NRSV was intended as a translation to serve the devotional, liturgical, and scholarly needs of the broadest possible range of Christian religious adherents.
13 and they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, and no one of them spoke; for they saw that his affliction was dreadful and very great. Chapter IV (4) 1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said, 10 The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.
Job 28 is the 28th 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 the 6th century BCE. [3] [4] This chapter records the speech of Job, which belongs to the Dialogue section of the book, comprising Job 3:1–31:40. [5] [6]
According to a minority view, Job never existed. [10] In this view, Job was a literary creation by a prophet who used this form of writing to convey a divine message. On the other hand, the Talmud (in Tractate Baba Batra 15a–16b) goes to great lengths trying to ascertain when Job actually lived, citing many opinions and interpretations by the ...
An eagerly awaited jobs report released on January 10 — the first major economic report in the new year — showed employers adding a thriving 256,000 jobs to payrolls in December, exceeding the ...
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3522: dated to the 1st century AD, it contains part of Job 42 translated into Greek.. The Book of Job (/ dʒ oʊ b /; Biblical Hebrew: אִיּוֹב, romanized: ʾĪyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1]