(The Conversation) — The Bible’s Book of Job opens on an ordinary day in the land of Uz, where a man carefully performs religious rituals to protect his children.

The Old Testament character Job is synonymous with patience, thanks to his endurance of the catalogue of misfortune God inflicts on him to test his faith. The Book of Job describes him as a rich ma… ...

After Job’s stalwart initial responses to his calamities (1:20–21; 2:10), three of his friends come to comfort him, at first sitting by in sympathetic silence (2:11–13).

Deborah Hicks, EIE’s vice president, noted that “Wisdom Literature from the Bible allows students to meet language and literacy objectives by studying the writings and life experiences of ...

All you've got to do is take each of the 20 modern job descriptions listed below and match it to the Bible character most qualified to fill it, based on what the Good Book says about their skills ...

I suspect that this is more evidence that Job is one of the Bible’s earliest stories. As I’ve written, the Bible makes a gentle arc from polytheism to monotheism.