Job (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture)

✍ Scribed by Manlio Simonetti, Marco Conti, Thomas C. Oden

• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1323
• Series: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book of Job presents its readers with a profound drama concerning innocent suffering. Such honest, forthright wrestling with the problem of evil and the silence of God has intrigued a wide gamut of readers both religious and nonreligious.

Surprisingly, the earliest church fathers showed little interest in the book of Job. Not until Origen in the early third century is there much evidence of any systematic treatment of the book, and most of Origen's treatment is known to us only from the catenae. More intense interest came at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth.

The excerpts in this Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume focus on systematic treatment. Among Greek texts are those from Origen, Didymus the Blind, Julian the Arian, John Chrysostom, Hesychius of Jerusalem, and Olympiodorus. Among Latin sources we find Julian of Eclanum, Philip the Priest, and Gregory the Great. Among Syriac sources we find Ephrem the Syrian and Isho'dad of Merv, some of whose work is made available here for the first time in English.

In store for readers of this volume is a great feast of wisdom from the ancient resources of the church with fresh relevance for today.

✦ Table of Contents

A Guide to Using This Commentary
Pericopes of Scripture
Overviews
Topical Headings
Identifying the Patristic Texts
The Footnotes
Abbreviations
Introduction to Job
The Biblical Text Used by the Fathers
Editorial Note On the Present Commentary
1:1–5 The Holiness, Fatherly Love And Wealth Of Job
1:1 There Was a Man
1:2 Seven Sons and Three Daughters
1:3 A Great Man
1:4–5 Sanctifying His Children
1:6–19 Satan Obtains Leave To Tempt Job
1:6 Satan Comes Before God
1:7–8 Where Have You Come From?
1:9–10 Does Job Fear God for Nothing?
1:11–12 Stretch Out Your Hand
1:13–15 A Lone Servant Escapes
1:16 Sheep and Servants Destroyed
1:17 A Chaldean Raid
1:18–19 Job’s Children Die
1:20–22 Job Blesses God In His Affliction
1:20–21 Job Worships God
1:22 Job Did Not Sin
2:1–8 Satan Is Allowed To Inflict Sores On Job
2:1–2 God Questions Satan
2:3 Job Blameless and Upright
2:4–5 Skin for Skin!
2:6 Only Spare His Life
2:7 Job Afflicted with Loathsome Sores
2:8 Job Sat Among the Ashes
2:9–13 Job’s Friends Come To Console Him
2:9 Curse God, and Die
2:10 Job Did Not Sin with His Lips
2:11 Job’s Friends Came to Console Him
2:12–13 They Did Not Recognize Job
3:1–12 Job Curses The Day Of His Birth
3:1–2 Job Cursed the Day of His Birth
3:3 Let the Day Perish in Which I Was Born
3:6–7 Let That Night Be Barren
3:8 Cursing the Day
3:9 The Stars Darkened
3:10–12 Why Did I Not Die at Birth?
3:13–26 Job Invokes The Rest Of Death
3:13 Then I Would Be at Rest
3:14–16 Like a Stillborn Child
3:17–19 The Weary Rest
3:20–23 Life Given to Those Bitter in Soul
3:24–26 I Am Not at Ease
4:1–11 Eliphaz Exhorts Job To Be Patient
4:1–2 Eliphaz Ventures to Speak
4:3–5 Exhortation to Patience
4:6 Confidence Comes from Fear of God
4:7 Were the Upright Cut Off?
4:8–9 Consumed by God’s Anger
4:10–11 The Lion Dies for Lack of Prey
4:12–21 Eliphaz Relates His Vision And The Words That He Heard
4:12 A Word Came to Eliphaz
4:13–15 Dread Came upon Eliphaz
4:16 Hearing a Voice
4:17 Mortals Righteous Before God?
4:18–19 God Charges Angels and Humans with Error
4:20–21 They Perish Forever
5:1–7 The Fool Incurs Disaster
5:1 Will Anyone Answer You?
5:2 Vexation Kills the Fool
5:3 Fools Take Root
5:4–5 The Hungry Eat Their Harvest
5:6–7 Human Beings Born to Trouble
5:8–16 In Distress We Must Seek God
5:8 I Would Seek God
5:9–10 God Does Great Things
5:11 God Lifts Up the Lowly
5:12–13 Schemes Brought to an End
5:14–16 God Saves the Needy
5:17–27 Happiness After God’s Correction
5:17 The Discipline of the Almighty
5:18 God Wounds but Binds Up
5:19 God Delivers from Troubles
5:20 Redeemed from Famine and War
5:21 Not Fearing Destruction
5:22–24 Your Tent Is Safe
5:25–27 Ripe Old Age
6:1–7 Job Justifies The Bitterness Of His Complaints
6:1–2 Weighing Vexation
6:3–4 The Arrows of God
6:5 Braying over Grass
6:6 Food Without Flavor
6:8–14 Job Wishes For Death
6:8–10 That God Would Crush Me
6:11–14 What Is My Strength?
6:15–30 Job’s Disappointment Over His Friends
6:15 Treacherous Companions
6:16–18 Disappearing in Adversity
6:19–21 Fearing Job’s Calamity
6:22–24 A Plea for Understanding
6:25–26 Unjust Reproof
6:27 Bargaining over a Friend
6:28–30 I Will Not Lie to Your Face
7:1–10 Job’s Reflections Upon Human Life
7:1–4 Hard Service on Earth
7:5 Clothed with Worms and Dirt
7:6 Days That End Without Hope
7:7 My Life Is a Breath
7:8 I Shall Be Gone
7:9–10 Those Who Go Down to Sheol
7:11–21 Job Appeals To God For Deliverance
7:11–12 In Anguish of Spirit
7:13–14 Finding Comfort
7:15–16 I Loathe My Life
7:17–18 What Are Human Beings?
7:19–21 Why Have You Made Me Your Target?
8:1–7 Bildad Demonstrates That God Is Just
8:1–3 Does God Pervert Justice?
8:4 Delivered into the Power of Transgression
8:5–7 Small Beginning, Great Ending
8:8–22 The Experience Of Former Generations Proves That The Godless Shall Perish
8:8–10 Ask Past Generations
8:11–12 Nourishment Produces Fruit
8:13 Those Who Forget God
8:14–15 A House That Does Not Endure
8:16 The Wicked Thrive for a Time
8:17–18 They Live Among the Rocks
8:19 Others Spring from the Earth
8:20–22 God Will Not Reject the Blameless
9:1–13 Job Is Helpless Before God’S Power
9:1–2 Job Answers Bildad
9:3–4 Who Can Resist God?
9:5–6 The Power of God
9:7 God Commands the Sun and Stars
9:8–9 God Stretched Out the Heavens
9:10 Things Beyond Understanding
9:11–13 Who Will Question God?
9:14–35 Does Job Doubt God’S Justice?
9:14–16 Appeal for Mercy to My Accuser
9:17 Wounds Multiplied
9:18–19 A Contest of Strength
9:20–21 Blameless but Reproached
9:22–24 It Is All One
9:25–26 Days That Flee Without Seeing Good
9:27–28 Fear in Suffering
9:29–31 Cursed and Impure
9:32–33 Impossible to Come to Trial Together
9:34–35 Speaking Without Fear
10:1–17 Job Wonders What Is God’S Purpose In Afflicting Him
10:1 I Loathe My Life
10:2–3 Why Do You Contend Against Me?
10:4–7 Do You See As Humans See?
10:8–9 You Made Me
10:10–12 Clothed with Skin and Flesh
10:13 Things Hidden in Your Heart
10:14–15 If I Am Wicked, Woe to Me!
10:16–17 You Hunt Me Like a Lion
10:18–22 Prayer For A Brief Respite Before Death
10:18–22 A Plea to Be Let Alone
11:1–12 Only God Can Clearly See Human Sins
11:1–2 Should Words Go Unanswered?
11:3 Babbling and Being Shamed
11:4 Clean in God’s Sight
11:5–6 Telling the Secrets of Wisdom
11:7 The Deep Things of God
11:8–9 Higher Than Heaven
11:10–11 God Sees Iniquity
11:12 Gaining Understanding
11:13–20 The Blessing Of Repentance
11:13–14 Put Wickedness Far Away
11:15 Then You Will Not Fear
11:16 Your Affliction Will Pass Away
11:19–20 You Will Not Fear
12:1–6 Job’S Ironic Remarks On His Friends’ Wisdom
12:1–2 No Doubt You Are the People
12:3 Job Also Has Understanding
12:4–5 I Am a Laughingstock
12:6 The Wicked Are Secure
12:7–25 Job Recognizes God’S Omnipotence And Reflects On His Justice
12:7–10 Life and Breath Are in God’s Hand
12:11 The Ear Tests Words
12:12–13 Wisdom and Understanding
12:14–15 Waters Withheld or Sent Out
12:16–17 Strength and Wisdom with God
12:18–19 Overthrowing the Mighty
12:20–21 Contempt Poured on Princes
12:22 Bringing Darkness to Light
12:23–25 Making and Destroying Nations
13:1–12 Job Criticizes The Words Of His Friends
13:1–2 I Have Seen and Understood
13:3 I Desire to Argue My Case with God
13:4–5 If You Would Only Keep Silent!
13:6–7 Will You Speak Falsely for God?
13:8–10 God Will Rebuke
13:11–12 God’s Majesty Will Terrify Them
13:13–28 Job Pleads With God To Know His Sins
13:13–14 Job’s Life in His Own Hand
13:15 Job Will Defend His Ways
13:16 Job’s Salvation
13:17–19 I Shall Be Vindicated
13:20–21 Two Requests
13:22–24 Make Known My Sins
13:25–26 Bitter Things
13:27–28 Bounds Set
14:1–6 Human Life Is Frail And Short
14:1–2 Humans Frail and Fleeting
14:3 Bringing to Judgment
14:4–5 Clean from Unclean?
14:6 Look Away from Them
14:7–22 Is There Life After Death?
14:7–10 Cut Down but Sprouting Again
14:11–12 They Will Not Awake
14:13–14 Waiting for Release
14:15–17 Call and Answer
14:18–19 Mountains Fall
14:20–22 Pain and Mourning Only for Self
15:1–16 Eliphaz Accuses Job Of Impiety
15:1–3 How Should the Wise Answer?
15:4–6 You Condemn Yourself
15:7–10 Are You Ancient and Filled with Wisdom?
15:11–13 You Dare to Speak So?
15:14–16 God’s Purity
15:17–35 The Anguish Of The Wicked
15:17–19 What the Wise Have Said
15:20–24 The Wicked in Pain
15:25–27 The Wicked Opposed God
15:28–30 Living in Desolation
15:31–33 Emptiness for the Wicked
15:34–35 The Wicked Plot Deceit
16:1–6 Job Reproves His Friends For Their Unmerciful Attitudes
16:1–2 Miserable Comforters
16:3–4 I Could Talk As You Do
16:5–6 I Could Encourage You
16:7–22 In His Distress Job Asserts His Innocence
16:7–10 Worn and Desolate
16:11 Given to the Ungodly
16:12–15 God Like a Warrior
16:16–19 Do Not Cover My Blood
16:20–22 I Weep to God
17:1–16 Job Sees His Humiliation
17:1–2 Broken in Spirit
17:3–5 Who Will Make a Pledge for Me?
17:6–7 An Object of Scorn
17:8–9 The Righteous Appalled
17:10–12 No Sensible Person Found
17:13–15 Who Will See My Hope?
17:16 Descending into Dust
18:1–4 Bildad Reproaches Job For His Conceit
18:1–2 Consider Your Words
18:3 Considered Cattle
18:4 You Tear Yourself in Anger
18:5–21 Afflictions Overtake The Wicked
18:5–6 The Wicked Are Extinguished
18:7–9 Walking into a Trap
18:10–11 A Rope Hidden for Them
18:12 Hunger and Calamity for the Wicked
18:13–14 Consumed by Disease
18:15–16 The Wicked Dry Up
18:17–19 The Wicked Perish
18:20–21 The Place of the Wicked
19:1–22 Job’S Affliction Before God And Humankind
19:1–2 How Long Will You Torment Me?
19:3 Reproach and Wrong
19:4–7 God Has Put a Net Around Me
19:8–11 Darkness and Obstacles
19:12 Besieged
19:13–15 Estranged from Family and Friends
19:16–19 They Speak Against Me
19:20–22 Have Pity!
19:23–29 Job’S Hope In God The Redeemer
19:23–24 O That My Words Were Written Down!
19:25–27 My Redeemer Lives
19:28–29 Know There Is a Judgment
20:1–29 Zophar Explains That God’S Justice Never Fails
20:1–3 Hear My Words!
20:4–5 Shortlived Joy and Exultation
20:6–8 Hypocrites Will Perish Forever
20:9–10 They Will No Longer Be Seen
20:11–14 Bodies Lying Down in Dust
20:15 The Wicked Are Condemned
20:16–18 The Wicked Will Not Look on the Rivers
20:19–21 Gaining No Enjoyment
20:22–23 Misery Will Come on Them
20:24–25 Terrors
20:26–27 Devoured by Fire
20:28–29 The Day of God’s Anger
21:1–16 Job Considers The Prosperity Of The Wicked
21:1–3 Listen with Care
21:4–6 Dismayed in Soul
21:7–14 Why Do the Wicked Continue?
21:15–16 Why Serve the Almighty?
21:17–34 The Wicked Often Remain Unpunished In This World
21:17–18 The Lamp of the Wicked Extinguished
21:19–22 God Judges Those on High
21:23–26 Divine Justice
21:27–30 Are the Wicked Spared?
21:31–33 Who Repays the Wicked for Their Deeds?
21:34 Nothing Left but Falsehood
22:1–20 God Punishes Only In The Name Of Justice
22:1–2 Can the Wise Be of Service to God?
22:3–4 Does Your Righteousness Please the Almighty?
22:5–6 Exacting Pledges
22:7 Withholding Bread from the Hungry
22:8–9 Crushing Orphans and Widows
22:10–11 Terror and Darkness Overwhelm You
22:12–14 What Does God Know?
22:15–20 The Wicked and the Righteous
22:21–30 Eliphaz Exhorts Job To Agree With God
22:21–25 Good Will Come to You
22:26–30 Delighting in the Almighty
23:1–7 Job Seeks God’S Justice
23:1–2 My Complaint Is Bitter
23:3–7 Oh, That I Knew Where I Might Find Him
23:8–17 Job Follows God’S Path In His Afflictions
23:8–9 I Cannot Perceive God
23:10–12 God Knows My Way
23:13–15 I Dread God
23:16–17 Vanishing in Darkness
24:1–25 Violence And Iniquity Prevail On Earth
24:1–4 Times Kept by God
24:5 Like Wild Donkeys
24:6–8 Reaping in Others’ Fields
24:9–12b Wronging Others
24:12c–14a God Ignores Their Prayer
24:14b–18a Not Knowing the Light
24:18b–20 The Wicked Cursed
24:21–22a Harming the Defenseless
24:22b–24 Exalted Temporarily
24:25 Who Will Prove Me a Liar?
25:1–6 How Can A Mortal Be Righteous Before God?
25:1–2 Dominion with God
25:3–4 How Can a Person Be Righteous?
25:5–6 The Stars Impure
26:1–14 Job Scorns Bildad’s Words But Recognizes God’s Greatness
26:1–2 Condemning the Powerless
26:3–4 Foolish Counsel
26:5–6 The Deep Trembles Before God
26:7–9 God Suspends the World on Nothing
26:10 The Boundary Between Light and Darkness
26:11–12 The Pillars of Heaven
26:13 God Pierced the Serpent
26:14 Who Can Understand God’s Power?
27:1–7 Job Confirms His Absolute Sincerity
27:1–2 Job Speaks Again
27:3–4 I Will Not Speak Falsely
27:5–7 I Will Not Put Away My Integrity
27:8–23 Job Declares His Abhorrence Of Wickedness
27:8–10 The Godless Cast Off by God
27:11–13 What the Wicked Receive from God
27:14–15 Their Children Die
27:16–18 Their Silver Dispersed to Others
27:19–23 They Awake Impoverished
28:1–11 Human Beings Have Knowledge Of Natural Things
28:1–3 Silver and Gold
28:4 Far from Human Dwellings
28:5 The Qualities of the Earth
28:6 Sapphires and Gold
28:7–8 A Path Unknown to Birds of Prey
28:9–10a Overturning Rocks and Mountains
28:10b–11 Seeing Precious Things
28:12–28 Wisdom Belongs To God
28:12–14 Where Is Wisdom Found?
28:15–17 It Cannot Be Purchased
28:18–19 Wisdom’s Price Above Pearls
28:20–21 Where Does Wisdom Originate?
28:22 We Have Heard a Rumor of It
28:23–26 God Sees Everything
28:27–28 Fear of the Lord Is Wisdom
29:1–25 Job Recalls His Former Prosperity
29:1–2 Oh, That I Was As Before
29:3–5 Walking by God’s Light
29:6–7 Milk and Oil
29:8–9 Respected by All
29:10–12 Princes Hushed
29:13 Blessed by the Wretched
29:14 Clothed with Righteousness
29:15–17 Eyes to the Blind
29:18–19 Roots Spread to the Waters
29:20 My Glory Was Fresh with Me
29:21–24 People Listened to Job’s Counsel
29:25 I Chose Their Way
30:1–13 Now Honor Is Turned Into Humiliation
30:1 They Jeer at Me
30:2–4 They Lack Vigor
30:5–8 They Live in the Ground
30:9–11 They Mock Me
30:12–13 The Rabble Rise
30:14–31 Job’s Present Afflictions
30:14–15 Times of Terrors
30:16–17 Days of Affliction
30:18–20 Like Dust and Ashes
30:21–22 Cruelty and Persecution
30:23–24 Brought to Death
30:25–26 Evil Comes Rather Than Good
30:27–31 I Cry for Help
31:1–40 Job Declares That His Conduct Is Blameless
31:1–2 A Covenant with My Eyes
31:3–4 Calamity Falls on the Wicked
31:5 Falsehood and Deceit
31:6–8 Weighed in a Just Balance
31:9–10 Not Enticed
31:11–12 A Grievous Crime
31:13–15 All Created Equal Before Birth
31:16–18 Caring for Orphans and Widows
31:19–20 Caring for the Poor
31:21–23 Consequences of Neglecting the Poor
31:24–25 No Rejoicing in Wealth
31:26 No Idolatry
31:27–28 No Secret Enticement
31:29–30 Not Seeking Revenge
31:31–32 A Model of Philanthropy
31:33–34a Recognizing One’s Faults
31:34b–35b Oh, That I Had One to Hear Me!
31:35c–37 More Proof of Giving
31:38–40 Perceiving Injustice
32:1–14 Elihu’s Speech About Wisdom
32:1–3 Elihu’s Anger at Job
32:4–5 Elihu’s Anger at the Three Friends
32:6 Afraid to Give My Opinion
32:7–9 The Spirit in a Mortal
32:10–11 Listen to Me
32:12–14 No One Confuted Job
32:15–22 Elihu’s Zeal To Speak
32:15–16 Should I Wait to Speak?
32:17–19 I Will Answer
32:20–22 Speaking to Find Relief
33:1–13 Elihu Invites Job Not To Contend With God
33:1–3 Sincerity of Heart
33:4–5 Impelled by the Spirit of God
33:6–7 The Same Before God
33:8–11 Clean and Pure
33:12–13 Why Do You Contend Against God?
33:14–33 God Calls Mortals To Repentance In Different Ways
33:14–16 God Speaks in Different Ways
33:17–18 Kept from Pride
33:19–22 Chastened with Pain
33:23 One Who Can Make Humanity Upright
33:24–25 Deliverance from the Pit
33:26 Repaid for Righteousness
33:27–28 Redeeming the Soul
33:29–30 God Does All These Things
33:31–33 Teaching Wisdom
34:1–30 God The Almighty Never Acts Unjustly
34:1–3 Hear Me, Wise Men
34:4–6 Job Had Proclaimed His Innocence
34:7–8 Job a Companion of Evildoers
34:9 No Profit from Delighting in God
34:10–11 God Will Not Act Wickedly
34:12–13 God Will Not Pervert Justice
34:14–15 Life Comes from God’s Spirit
34:16–17 Righteous and Mighty
34:18–19 Showing No Partiality
34:20 Dying in a Moment
34:21–26 God Sees the Ways of People
34:27–28 Disregard for God’s Ways
34:29–30 Who Can Condemn?
34:31–37 Job’s Criticism Is Due To Ignorance
34:31–33 Enduring Punishment
34:34–35 Those with Sense
34:36–37 The Answers of the Wicked
35:1–8 It Is Wrong To Say That Righteousness Is Unavailing
35:1–2 What Is Just?
35:3–4 What Advantage Have I?
35:5 Look and Observe
35:6–7 What Did You Accomplish Against God?
35:8 Deeds Affect Others
35:9–16 Many Are Not Heard Because Of Their Infidelity
35:9–11 Where Is God?
35:12–13 The Pride of the Wicked
35:14 You Say You Do Not See God
35:15–16 Job’s Talk Is Empty
36:1–21 God’s Just Designs In Human Affliction
36:1–4 Asking for Patience
36:5–7 God’s Understanding
36:8–10 Openness to Instruction
36:11–12 Dying Without Knowledge
36:13 The Godless Do Not Seek God’s Help
36:14–15 Ending in Shame
36:16 A Place of No Constraint
36:17–21 Judgment and Justice
36:22–33 God’s Greatness And Infinite Wisdom
36:22–23 Who Is a Teacher Like God?
36:24–25 Looking at God
36:26–28 We Do Not Know God
36:29–30a Who Can Understand Clouds and Thunder?
36:30b–31 Covering the Roots of the Sea
36:32–33 God’s Way of Acting
37:1–13 The Effects Of God’s Voice On Nature
37:1 A Trembling Heart
37:2–4 The Thunder of God’s Voice
37:5–8 Commanding the Snow
37:9–10 Winds and Whirlwind
37:11 Clouds and Lightning
37:12–13 Accomplishing God’s Commands
37:14–24 Job Is Invited To Learn From Nature
37:14–16 Consider the Works of God
37:17–18 When the Earth Is Still
37:19 Teach Us
37:20–22 Bright Light in the Sky
37:23–24 We Cannot Find the Almighty
38:1–41 God Intervenes And Shows How Job Is Ignorant
38:1 Out of the Whirlwind
38:2 Words Without Knowledge
38:3 I Will Question, and You Will Answer
38:4–5 The Foundation of the Earth
38:6–7 The Morning Stars
38:8–9 Delimiting the Sea
38:10–11 Stopping the Waves
38:12–13 Commanding the Morning
38:14–15 Like Clay or a Garment
38:16–17 The Springs of the Sea
38:18–21 The Expanse of the Earth
38:22–24 The Storehouses of Snow
38:25–27 A Channel for Rain
38:28–30 Who Begets the Dew?
38:31–32 Binding or Loosing the Constellations
38:33 Can You Establish Ordinances?
38:36 Wisdom in the Inner Parts
38:37–38 Numbering the Clouds
38:39–41 Giving Food to the Lions
39:1–30 Further Demonstrations Of Job’s Ignorance
39:1–4 The Mountain Goats and Their Young
39:5–8 The Wild Donkey
39:9–12 The Wild Ox
39:13–18 The Ostrich and Its Young
39:19–25 The Might of the Horse
39:26 The Soaring Hawk
39:27–30 The Eagle
40:1–14 God Invites Job To Show His Power
40:1–2 A Faultfinder Must Answer God
40:3–5 What Shall I Answer You?
40:6–8 I Will Question You
40:9 Are You Like God?
40:10–11 Pour Out Your Anger
40:12–14 Tread on the Wicked
40:15–24 The Behemoth
40:15 Look at Behemoth
40:16–19 Its Strength and Power
40:20–24 Under the Lotus Plants
41:1–34 God’s Power Rules The Leviathan And All Creatures
41:1–2 Can You Control Leviathan?
41:3–4 Will It Speak Gently to You?
41:5–6 Will You Treat It As a Pet?
41:7–9 Can You Capture It?
41:10–12 Who Can Stand Before It?
41:13 Leviathan’s Double Coat of Mail?
41:14–15 The Doors of Its Face
41:16–17 What Cannot Be Separated
41:18–21 Light Flashes from Its Sneezes
41:22–24 Producing Terror
41:25–26 Raising Itself Up
41:27–30 Iron as Straw
41:31–33 The Deep Boils
41:34 King over the Proud
42:1–6 Job Repents Before God
42:1–3 God’s Purpose Cannot Be Thwarted
42:4–5 Hear, and I Will Speak
42:6 I Repent in Dust and Ashes
42:7–10 God Rebukes Job’s Friends
42:7 God’s Anger Against the Three Friends
42:8 A Sacrifice
42:9–10 God Accepts Job’s Prayer
42:11–17 Job Is Finally Rehabilitated
42:11 Job’s Siblings Eat with Him
42:12 Job Blessed More Than at the Beginning of His Life
42:13–15 Job’s Daughters
42:16–17 And Job Died
Appendix
Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited
Bibliography of Works in Original Languages
Bibliography of Works in English Translation
Authors/Writings Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index