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100 1 _aAnonymous
245 1 4 _aThe Book of Job
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job
500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-03
508 _aCarla Foust, Brian Wilson, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a"The Book of Job" by Anonymous is an ancient poetic and philosophical text, likely written in the early to mid-1st millennium BC. The work poses deep questions about suffering, justice, and the nature of God, focused around the central character, Job—a righteous man subjected to tremendous, unexplained misfortune. Through dialogues between Job and his friends, the book explores the limits of human wisdom, the reality of innocent suffering, and the search for meaning in pain. It is regarded as a profound meditation on faith and endurance, making it both a foundational religious work and a literary classic. The opening of "The Book of Job" introduces Job as a prosperous, upright man deeply devoted to God, with a large family and great wealth. Satan challenges Job’s integrity before God, suggesting that Job’s virtue is only a result of his blessings. God allows Satan to strip Job of his possessions, children, and eventually his health, yet Job refuses to denounce God. As Job mourns in misery, three friends arrive and begin a series of poetic dialogues, trying to explain his suffering through conventional wisdom. Job, however, laments his existence and ardently questions God’s justice, insisting on his innocence and longing for understanding, while his friends repeatedly assert that suffering is a punishment for wrongdoing. This opening sets the stage for a profound exploration of faith, despair, and the complexities of human suffering. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916
653 _aBible. Job -- Illustrations
653 _aBible. Job
653 _aBible. Job -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
700 1 _aChesterton, G. K.
_q(Gilbert Keith),
_d1874-1936
700 1 _aTongue, C. Mary
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/bookofjob00chesuoft/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75778
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