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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 ]
Within the structure of the book, chapters 1 and 2 are grouped as "the Prologue" with the following outline: [8] 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)
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]
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 ...
Within the structure of the book, chapters 1 and 2 are grouped as "the Prologue" with the following outline: [8] 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 earliest and most important text, especially with regard to the illustration of the Book of Job in this category, is the pseudepigraphical Testament of Job, which has survived in its oldest version in Greek, in the Slavonic translation derived from Greek and, in its latest form, from the Syrian and Arabic variants.
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.
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.