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In chapter 23, Job again ponders on the possible legal case against God (verses 1–7), but he is terrified on the prospect of facing God, which he desperately seeks but cannot see (verses 8–9), yet he believes God knows all Job's way and will complete the purposes in Job's life (verses 10–14), so Job testifies that he both is longing and ...
Job is further mentioned in the Talmud as follows: [10] Job's resignation to his fate. [11] When Job was prosperous, anyone who associated with him even to buy from him or sell to him, was blessed. [12] Job's reward for being generous. [13] David, Job and Ezekiel described the Torah's length without putting a number to it. [14]
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 ...
The first part of the section describes Job's mockers from Job's point-of-view (verses 2–8. [14] With the recurrence of "and now" (verse 9; cf. "but now" in verse 1), Job returns to the complaint about the treatment of him by his "enemies", who include the outcasts of the community. [14]
In these instances, such as with Isaac, [1] Moses, [2] Samuel, [3] and Job, [4] the act of praying is a method of changing a situation for the better. The second way in which prayer is depicted is through fully fleshed out episodes of prayer, where a person's prayer is related in full.
In his last speech of the book (chapter 22), Eliphaz becomes more direct in his accusation of Job as a sinner, even further than the position of Bildad and Zophar, by confronting Job with a list of alleged offenses (verses 1–11) in contrast to God's knowledge and power (verses 12–20), so at the end Eliphaz urges Job to repent (verses 21 ...
Jemimah or Jemima (/ dʒ ə ˈ m aɪ m ə / jə-MY-mə; Hebrew: יְמִימָה, romanized: Yəmīmā) was the oldest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of his life, after God made Job prosperous again. Jemimah's sisters are named Keziah and Keren-Happuch. Job's sons, in contrast, are ...
Job laments God's treatment to him (verses 7–12) Job laments people's abandonment of him (verses 13–20) Job pleads his friends to stop rebuking him (verses 21–22) Job explores the possibility of a redeemer (verses 23–27) Job warns his friends of the judgment for mistreating him (verses 28–29) [11] "Job". From: Biblical illustration of ...