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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)
(based upon Job 1:18–1:19) The Messengers Tell Job of His Misfortunes: And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Satan Going Forth from the Presence of the Lord and Job's Charity: Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord (based upon Job 2:7) Satan Smiting Job with Boils: And smote Job with sore Boils from the sole of his foot to ...
He was the first of Job's friends to attribute Job's calamity to actual wickedness; however, he does so indirectly, by accusing Job's children (who were destroyed in the opening scenes, Job 1:19) [8] of sin to warrant their punishment (Job 8:4). [9] Bildad's brief third speech, just five verses in length, [10] marked the silencing of the ...
Job (/ dʒ oʊ b / JOHB; Hebrew: אִיּוֹב ' Īyyōv; Greek: Ἰώβ Iṓb) is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible. In Islam, Job (Arabic: أيوب, romanized: ʾAyyūb) is also considered a prophet. Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is suddenly beset with horrendous disasters that take away all he ...
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.
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.
In the Bible, Genesis 10:23, Genesis 22:21 and 1 Chronicles 1:42 mention Aram, son of Shem, whose firstborn son is named Uz. Thus, Rashi places Uz in Aram. [2] According to the War Scroll (one of the Dead Sea Scrolls) the land of Uz existed beyond the Euphrates, possibly in relation to Aram. In column 2 verse 11, the War Scroll says,
Also, the oldest English-language Catholic Bible, the Douay-Rheims, identifies Job as Jobab. The Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims speculates that Job could have written the book of Job, [ 5 ] but the original 1610 Douay-Rheims says that Job himself wrote the book in the Arabic language, which was then translated into Hebrew by Moses . [ 6 ]