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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] Scholars generally agree that it was written between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE. [2]
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.
He wrote the following commentaries: on the Torah (1567); on Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, with the latter being dedicated to Henry II of France; on the Psalms (1586); Mishpaṭ Ẓedeḳ, on the Book of Job (1589); on the books of Jonah, Habakkuk, and Zechariah, published with David ibn Hin's Likkute Shoshannim (1724).
It contains a number of commentaries, written in English, on the Torah which run alongside the Hebrew text and its English translation, and it also contains a number of essays on the Torah and Tanakh in the back of the book. It contains three types of commentary: (1) the p'shat, which discusses the literal meaning of the text; this has been ...
The Testament of Job (also referred to as Divrei Lyov, [1] literally meaning "Words of Job") is a book written in the 1st century BC or the 1st century AD (thus part of a tradition often called "intertestamental literature" by Christian scholars).
Job 4 is the fourth 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.
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.
Jewish translations: Iyov - Job - Chapter 25 (Judaica Press) translation [with Rashi's commentary] at Chabad.org; Christian translations: Online Bible at GospelHall.org (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English) Book of Job Chapter 25. Various versions; Book of Job public domain audiobook at LibriVox Various versions