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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 ...
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3522: dated to the 1st century AD, it contains part of Job 42 translated into Greek.. 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]
He is one of the friends or comforters of Job in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible. The first of the three visitors to Job ( Job 2:11 ), he was said to have come from Teman, an important city of Edom ( Amos 1:12 ; Obadiah 9 .
Job with his three daughters by William Blake. Keren-happuch (Hebrew: קֶרֶן הַפּוּךְ Qeren Hapūḵ, Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈqeren hapˈpux], "Horn of kohl") was the youngest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of his life, after God made Job prosperous again.
Job with his three daughters William Blake, 1805. Keziah (Hebrew: קְצִיעָה Qəṣī‘ā; Greek: Κασία, Kasia; also Ketziah) is a woman in the Hebrew Bible. She was the second of the three daughters born to Job after his sufferings (Job 42:14–17). Her elder sister was Jemima and her younger sister Keren-Happuch.
Zophar (Hebrew: צוֹפַר Ṣōp̄ar, "chirping"; "rising early"; also Tzofar) the Naamathite is one of the three friends of Job who visit him during his illness in the Book of Job (c. 6th century BCE?), Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. "Naamathite" (na'-a-ma-thit) is a Gentile name, [1] suggesting he was from a city called Naamah, perhaps ...
This claim could be supported by St. Jerome, who wrote that the book of Job was written in "Hebrew and Arabic and sometimes Syrian". [7] Church Slavonic versions of Book of Job and Russian Synodal Bible include a postscript in which Jobab is identified with Job, the anonymous author of the postscript refers to a "Syriac book". [8]
Gustave Doré, Job Speaks with His Friends.. Bildad (Biblical Hebrew: בִּלְדַּד , romanized: Bildaḏ; [a] Ancient Greek: Βαλδάδ, romanized: Baldád), the Shuhite, was one of Job's three friends who visited the patriarch in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Job.