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Job 1 is the first 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 6th century BCE. [3] [4] This chapter belongs to the prologue of the book,comprising Job 1:1–2:13. [5]
Towards the end of the book, Elihu is introduced in Job 32:2. His speeches comprise chapters 32–37, [ 1 ] and he opens his discourse with more modesty than displayed by the other comforters. Elihu addresses Job by name ( Job 33:1 , 33:31 , 37:14 ), [ 2 ] and his words differ from those of the three friends in that his monologues discuss ...
Job and His Friends by Ilya Repin (1869) The Hebrew Book of Job is part of Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible. Not much is known about Job based on the Masoretic Text. The characters in the Book of Job consist of Job, his wife, his three friends (Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar), a man named Elihu, God, and angels.
Job 2 is the second 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 6th century BCE. [3] [4] This chapter belongs to the prologue of the book,comprising Job 1:1–2:13. [5]
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 ...
This is an outline of commentaries and commentators.Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which provide the foundation for later commentary.
J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.
An illuminated initial from Gregory's Commentary on Job, Abbey of Saint-Pierre at Préaux, Normandy. Moralia in Job ("Morals in Job"), also called Moralia, sive Expositio in Job ("Morals, or Narration about Job") or Magna Moralia ("Great Morals"), is a commentary on the Book of Job by Gregory the Great, written between 578 and 595.