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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 ...
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]
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 14 is the fourteenth 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 records the speech of Job, which belongs to the Dialogue section of the book, comprising Job 3:1–31:40. [5] [6]
Job 26 is the 26th 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 records the speech of Job, which belongs to the Dialogue section of the book, comprising Job 3:1–31:40. [5] [6]
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.
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.
Job 19 is the nineteenth 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 records the speech of Job, which belongs to the Dialogue section of the book, comprising Job 3:1–31:40. [5] [6]