Book of Job
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- proper noun
- /bʊk əv dʒoʊb/
- Literature
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Libro de Job
- In the Old Testament, the Book of Job tells the story of a man's suffering and faith.
- the Book of Job reveals that God
So I think it's Ecclesiastes, which is also known as Cohelette, Proverbs and the book of Job.
- So I think it's Ecclesiastes, which is also known as Cohelette, Proverbs and the book of Job.
- And then what happens at the end of the book of Job, after Job's gone through all of this misery, he still refuses to curse God.
- While the the, the reminder that God sends Job in in the book of Job is that you're not in a position to judge God.
Examples
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Like almost no other primordial poem the West has inherited, the Book of Job is conceived under the aspect of the universal—if the universal is understood to be a questioning so organic to our nature that no creed or philosophy can elude it.
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Reading the book of Job through a Christological lens, Gregory argues that Job's suffering foreshadows Christ's passion to fight for God's cause.
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What is the Book of Job about?
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The book of Job (in the Old Testament part of the Bible) has this to say:
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This essay will appear as the introduction to The Book of Job, to be published this winter in the Vintage Spiritual Classics series.
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And then what happens at the end of the book of Job, after Job's gone through all of this misery, he still refuses to curse God.
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Gregory of Nazianos argued that the Book of Job taught Christians that it was impossible to comprehend why God acts as He does.
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In the Book of Job, the scholars tell us, Satan enters Scripture for the first time as a distinct personality and as an emblem of destructive forces.
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Several portions of the Bible, notably the Book of Job and the Book of Jonah, can be read as reflections on the mystery of divine Providence.
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A great part of the Book of Job finds its ancestry in the region's pervasive wisdom literature (and its descendants in today's self-improvement best-sellers).
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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An Old Testament book that tells the story of a man who suffers and keeps his faith
Surface Forms
Morphology
The title follows the regular compositional pattern 'book of X' so a learner who knows 'book' and the proper name 'Job' will naturally interpret it as a book concerning Job (i.e. the biblical book). This construction is cross-linguistically common and therefore largely transparent, although detailed knowledge of Job's story requires cultural/biblical background beyond pure morphological composition.
Etymology
Book of Job is a Bible book named for Job, a man who lost his family, health and money and who asks God why bad things happen to him. The story shows his pain and his faith, so people read the book for 'comfort' or to think about 'suffering' and 'faith'.