Questions tagged [job]
The book of Job is the story of a "righteous sufferer" (Job 1-2; 42) framing a set of dialogues (Job 3-41) in which Job's plight is debated.
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Different chapter verse numbering in Job 40 between Masoretic and other texts
Can someone explain how there came to be different chapter/verse numberings in Chapter 40 of the book of Job? MT 40:25 becomes 41:1 in many other Bibles.
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How does Job 27:13-23 fit into the overall argument between Job and the friends?
Job and his friends debate whether the wicked (A) prosper unjustly or (B) get their just deserts. Each position has secondary implications for God's justice and wisdom in governing the universe, and ...
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Job 4:6 Heb: "your fear [of God] your hope, the integrity of your ways" LXX: your fear founded in folly, your evil ways
The LXX is significantly different in this verse. Can you find scholarly comments or notes on this textual variants and the contextual analysis for a particular reading would suit Eliphaz's views? ...
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Is there a contradiction between Job's and Jesus' understanding of Sheol? Job 10:21-22, 14:10-12, 17:13-16 vs. Luke 16:19-31
Job
18 “Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few?
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Are there worms in Sheol according to Isaiah 14:9-11 & Job 17:13-16?
9 Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
10 All of ...
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Is it possible that Job's wife and children were not actually taken from him, but that it was actually a fabrication to discourage him?
Job 1
18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another [messenger] and said, “Thy
sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest
brother’s house, 19 and behold, there came ...
