Book of Job

Noun

Meaning

a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state. Donald Phillip Verene

Some would argue, you know, in some of the books of the New Testament, the ending of the Book of Job is different. I think, if I'm not mistaken, there's one book where there's a more optimistic ending, which we believe was tacked on later. Howard Dean

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. Virginia Woolf

This lesson is the principal object of the whole Book of Job. Maimonides

Contents Job's Tormentors' from William Blake 's Illustrations for the Book of Job Prologue on earth and in heaven The prologue on earth shows the righteous Job blessed with wealth and sons and daughters. Source: Internet

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