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The Healer eases Job's suffering offstage, but his real business is with the wife's hypocrisy, brought out as he questions the reason for her behaviour. What he gradually teaches her and the audience is balanced with the mutual incomprehension and comic exchanges between mistress and Nali, who can't see the Healer, and yet speaks the truth ...
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 ...
The narrator's preface Job 32:4–5 and Elihu's own words in Job 32:11 indicate that he has been listening intently to the conversation between Job and the other three men. He also admits his non-elder status (32:6–7). As Elihu's monologue reveals, his anger against the three older men was so strong he could not contain himself (32:2–4).
From verse 1 to the middle of verse 3, the narrative practically repeats Job 1:7–8, except for the addition of three Hebrew words at the end of verse 2:1 (להתיצב על יהוה 11] translated: "to present himself before YHWH") and the difference in the Hebrew word used for "from where" (מֵאַ֣יִן 12] in 1:7; אי מזה 13] in 2:2 ...
There have been many commentaries on the biblical Book of Job. Selecta of Job by Origen (d. c. 253) Commenttarium on Iob by Maximinus the Arian (4th century) a commentary by Pseudo-Ignatius (4th century) Exerpta in Job by Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373) a commentary by Didymus the Blind (d. 398) a commentary by Hesychius of Jerusalem (5th ...
The Testament of Job contains all the characters familiar in the Book of Job, with a more prominent role for Job's wife, given the name Sitidos, and many parallels to Christian beliefs that Christian readers find, such as intercession with God and forgiveness. In this text, Job's first wife dies and the seven sons and three daughters that he ...
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.
Job's final speech in the third cycle of debate mainly comprises chapters 26 to 27, but in the silence of his friends, Job continues his speech until chapter 31. [12] Chapter 26 can be divided into two parts: [13] Job's rebuke to his friends: rejection to Bildad's arguments (verses 1–4) Job's praise for God's majectic power (verses 5–14) [13]