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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)
Job does not deny that he sins (verse 20–21) but he cannot understand why he has not been forgiven after showing penitence and making necessary sacrifices (cf. Job 1:13). [25] At the end, there is a tension between Job desiring God's presence and God's absence in his life.
Job is further mentioned in the Talmud as follows: [11] Job's resignation to his fate. [12] When Job was prosperous, anyone who associated with him even to buy from him or sell to him, was blessed. [13] Job's reward for being generous. [14] David, Job and Ezekiel described the Torah's length without putting a number to it. [15]
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] The language of the Book of Job, combining post-Babylonian Hebrew and Aramaic ...
In chapter 6, the introduction (verse 1) and a sketch or outline of Job's s complaint (verses 2–7) is followed by Job's Request (verses 8-13) and his rebuke of the friends' failure to care for him (verses 14–23), then concluded with a challenge addressed to the friends (verses 24–30). [11]
Job points out that some who are wicked are prospering, regardless how the righteous is rewarded or is suffering, and that the life of the nature all are in God's hand (verse 9). [12] Job suggests his friends to look behind the 'age-old traditions' and 'past-dogmas' to 'the God who is both the source of all wisdom' and the one in control of all ...
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It was chiefly Job's character and piety that concerned the Talmudists. He is particularly represented as a most generous man. Like Abraham, he built an inn at the cross-roads, with four doors opening respectively to the four cardinal points, in order that wayfarers might have no trouble in finding an entrance, and his name was praised by all who knew him.