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	Sermons from Seattle - Sermons - Easter
		And then, all ten children of Job were having a party and all the children and grandchildren were there at the house, and a sudden storm came roaring through and shattered the whole house and everyone who was in it.
		Job went out to the garbage dump and took a piece of pottery, broke it, and with the sharp piece of pottery, Job scraped off his sores.
		Job was sitting there in the dump and these three friends see the disasters that have happened to Job.
	www.sermonsfromseattle.com /old_test_series_job.htm (3218 words)

	Current Study materials for the Upper Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Job looks upon the sufferings of the righteous as an almost unjust severity of God, which he inflicts for the slightest mistakes, and which the most virtuous man cannot escape (vii, 21; ix 30-21; X, 6, 13-14).
		Job himself says that his words are not to be taken too exactly, they are almost the involuntary expression of his pain (vi, 2-10, 26-27).
		Job is severely rebuked on account of his irreverence; he confesses briefly his guilt and promises amendment in the future.
	www.mdumc.org /default/upperoom/job.htm (1525 words)

	Job notes - Old Testament Survey - REL 101
		Job tells his friends that they would be wise just to stop arguing (13:5), and reproves them for saying that God automatically gives good for good and bad for bad (13:7-8).
		Job, chapter 19 - Job asks if it isn't bad enough that God is allowing these things to happen to him, so why do his friends have to come and make things worse with their arguments and (false) accusations.
		Job, chapters 27-31 - Job's soliloquy in which he maintains that he has done right, not wickedness (27:5-6), and declares that he knows that the wicked will eventually be dealt with by God (27:8-23); then he describes the wisdom of God, as shown in Creation (chapater 28).
	www.drshirley.org /rel101/n18.html (1388 words)

	Testament of Job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In my paper I have attempted to refute the view of some scholars who have suggested that the Testament of Job is a Jewish work and have sought to locate the book within a Jewish milieu.
		This notion is based on the parallels between the description of the Therapeutic community by Philo and the community in the Testament of Job.
		The basis for this theory is focussed on the parallels between TJ, the Apocalypse of Abraham, 3Enoch and concepts in Merkabah mysticism.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~www_sd/tjob.html (319 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s READING OPPORTUNITIES The Book of Job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Job's story was so useful to teachers of conventional religion that it survived the alterations wrought on it when the Book of Job came to be written, and it continued to be told and elaborated upon throughout the Middle Ages.
		It is reflected in Judaism in the Hellenistic Testament of Job and the midrash; in Christianity, in the New Testament and thereafter throughout the history of Christian preaching and art; and in Islam, in the Quran and the Islamic stories of the Hebrew pr ophets.
		Job is certain that he has been righteous all along; and more important (for this is a literary work), we readers have absolute knowledge that he is in the right.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/reading/bookexc/scheindlin_job/intro.shtml (4395 words)

	Book of Job - Bible Survey
		Job's 3 friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, come to comfort him and to discuss his crushing series of tragedies.
		Job, though, remains devoted to God through all of this and contends that his life has not been one of sin.
		Job is then restored to health, happiness and prosperity beyond his earlier state.
	www.gotquestions.org /Book-of-Job.html (453 words)

	An Introduciton to the Book of Job
		Job 9:26 describes the speedy movement of the light skiffs made of papyrus that were used in Egypt in ancient times.
		Job replies in chapter 16-17 that his friends are poor comforters and he again defends himself and his right to speak in the way he is speaking.
		Job’s experience does contradict a form of the doctrine of retribution (sometimes derived from Proverbs, sometimes derived from Deuteronomy) that teaches that suffering is caused by personal sin.
	www.cresourcei.org /books/job.html (4293 words)

	Book of Job at AllExperts
		Job's repentance is controversial and may imply only a change of course in his prosecution of God and not a moral confession of sin.#The third division is the historical conclusion, in prose (42:7-15).
		As Job endured these calamities without reproaching Divine Providence, Satan solicited permission to afflict his person as well, and the Lord said, "Behold he is in your hand, but don't touch his life." Satan, therefore, smote him with a dreadful disease, probably leprosy, and Job, seated in ashes, scraped off the corruption with a potsherd.
		Job's declaration "I know that my Redeemer lives" (Job 19:25) is considered by Christians to be a proto-Christian statement of belief, and is the basis of several Christian hymns.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bo/book_of_job.htm (5050 words)

	JOB (This Rock: October 1993)
		But Job's suffering is so deep that he utters a cry of lamentation--not of despair--when his three friends seek to console him after his being plunged into silence for seven days.
		Job's three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, keep interrupting him to try to convince him that he is at fault, but Job knows otherwise and refuses to plead guilty to a sin he did not commit.
		Job's suffering, the suffering of a just man who bears it patiently and continues to seek mercy and forgiveness, acquires its fullest meaning in the New Testament.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1993/9310otg.asp (1577 words)

	Testament of Job
		This book recounts the calamities Job endured as described in the Old Testament, including his loss of wealth, the deaths of his children, and his own illness. In the Testament of Job, Satan is similarly responsible for Job's suffering, however, his role is greater.
		Job must endure seeing his wife, Sitis, live in such poverty that she must give up everything, including her hair, so she can buy bread to bring her husband.
		Two elements that are stressed in the Testament of Job are his incredible charity and his ability to endure misery as a result of patience.
	wesley.nnu.edu /biblical_studies/noncanon/summaries/test-job-notes.htm (277 words)

	IVP - Quiet Time Bible Study
		Sometimes, like Job, we are led through a dark valley without seeing the path out, why we are suffering, whether God has a redeeming purpose in it all and how we are to respond.
		Job's saintly friends tried to "explain" his problems by appealing to the logic of good orthodox theology.
		While Job's orthodox friends were rejected (Job 42:7), he persevered; that is the real point of the New Testament reference.
	www.ivpress.com /bible/job (749 words)

	AllRefer.com - Job (Old Testament) - Encyclopedia
		The main part of the book is cast in poetic form and consists of speeches by Job and three friends who come to "comfort" him: Job speaks, then each of the three speaks in turn, with Job replying each time; there are three such cycles of discussion, although the third is incomplete.
		The friends insist alike that Job cannot really be just, as he claims to be, otherwise he would not be suffering as he is. Nevertheless, Job reiterates his innocence of wrong.
		He in turn is followed by God himself, who speaks out of a storm to convince Job of his ignorance and rebuke him for his questioning.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/Job.html (362 words)

	The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha :: Testament of Job
		The Testament of Job was composed some time prior to the 5th century CE, and is considered by most scholars to have originated as a Jewish composition in the first century BCE or first century CE (see Spittler, 833-34).
		Conybeare, "The Testament of Job and the Testaments of the XII Patriarchs, according to the Text of Cod.
		The text of the extant Greek witnesses to the Testament of Job transcribed in the OCP (that is, mss P, S, and V) is in the public domain.
	ocp.acadiau.ca /TJob.html (2492 words)

	The women of the Testament of Job draw considerable attention to themselves, and well they should given the prominent ...
		Testament is Job’s deathbed speech in which he explains that his earlier afflictions resulted from his opposition to Satan and that his restored prosperity and family bliss were God’s reward for his perseverance in faith under adversity.
		Testament’s removal of all ambiguity with respect to why Job was afflicted and how he managed to win all back would have stood in sharp contrast with the biblical book’s abiding ambiguity on both questions and on the larger issue of God’s justice.
		That Sitidos’ advice to Job did not entail despair for herself is clear from her reappearance in chapter 39 to plead with the kings for help in recovering her children’s bodies from the wreckage of the house in which they perished.
	www.lclark.edu /~rbaugh/TJob.html (7180 words)

	job - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		In the Old Testament, a man whose faith was severely tested by Satan, with God's permission.
		Job was the most prosperous and happy of men, who faithfully praised God for God's goodness.
		This term originates from a time when a user would manually submit a job as a deck of punched cards which would typically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/job (1810 words)

	The Book Of Job - Introduction
		We are privileged to know of the challenge of Satan, and that God allows Job to suffer in answer to that challenge, but Job is never told of this.
		From the "patience of Job", we learn that it means to maintain fidelity to God, even under great trials in which we do not understand what is happening.
		Job longs for a mediator between him and God (9:33; 33:23), and Jesus is one (1 Ti 2:5).
	www.ccel.org /contrib/exec_outlines/job/job_01.htm (1162 words)

	Old Testament Poetry & Wisdom - Job:
		Job being mocked by the people of the town - painting by Dutch artist Jan Mandyn (1500-c.1560).
		God questions Job on his knowledge of his divine work at the time of the Creation: a water-colour by William Blake (1757-1827)..
		Job receives presents from his friends on the restoration of his fortunes.
	www.biblepicturegallery.com /Pictures/Job.htm (216 words)

	Studies on the Testament of Job - Cambridge University Press
		For much of the modern period the Testament of Job has been one of the lesser-known pseudepigraphic products of early Judaism, and this book attempts to remedy the deficiency of scholarly material in the area with a well-balanced treatment of its central concerns.
		From the viewpoint of the history of religions it is of interest for its image of Satan, its ecstaticism and its emphasis on magic; it sheds light on the Jewish background of the early Christian phenomenon of glossolalia; and it is intriguing because of the remarkable role it assigns to women.
		Job’s perseverance in the Testament of job Cees Haas; Index of authors; Select index of passages in the Testament of job; Index of subjects.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052137216X (368 words)

	SparkNotes: The Old Testament: Job
		Job is a wealthy man living in a land called Uz with his large family and extensive flocks.
		The Book of Job is one of the most celebrated pieces of biblical literature, not only because it explores some of the most profound questions humans ask about their lives, but also because it is extremely well written.
		Job wants to find a way to justify God’s actions, but he cannot understand why there are evil people who “harm the childless woman, / and do no good to the widow,” only to be rewarded with long, successful lives (24:21).
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/oldtestament/section11.rhtml (1671 words)

	Job
		Deconstructing the Book of Job David JA Clines argues that Job deconstructs itself in several fundamental areas and tries to determine these deconstructions from simple incoherence and suggests to some extent that it is inoculated against its deconstructability by its rhetoric.
		Disjoined Body, The: The Body and the Self in Hebrew Rhetoric David JA Clines examines Job's imposing of a covenant of obligation on himself as if he were the master and his body the servant in a disjunction of mind and body.
		Belief, Desire and Wish in Job 19.23-27: Clues for the Identity of Job's 'Redeemer' David JA Clines explores the possibilities as to who Job was referring to when he spoke of his Redeemer.
	www.otgateway.com /job.htm (1254 words)

	patient
		Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." This has led to a frequent misunderstanding about the Old Testament text, arising largely to a problem of translation.
		Because of the New testament reference, Job is often held up as a paragon of "patience," emphasizing the modern English meaning of this word.
		Yet, anyone who carefully reads the book of Job will quickly discover that Job was far from enduring his suffering with composure and without complaint; he was confused and demonstrably angry.
	www.octc.kctcs.edu /crunyon/HRS101/OldTest/03-Job/patient.htm (268 words)

	Book of Job Summary
		The biblical Book of Job is included among the Writings (Ketubim) in the Hebrew Bible and among the Poetic books in the Old Testament.
		Job is a didactic poem set in a prose framing device.
		In the following excerpt from his introduction to The Anchor Bible: Job, Pope examines several points of critical debate surrounding The Book of Job: the question of textual integrity, the form and origin of the book, the place of the work in the literary canon, and the philosophical and educational intentions of the book's author(s).
	www.bookrags.com /Book_of_Job (413 words)

	Testament of Job
		Because of their attempts to rebuke Job, God threatens them with death, but they are forgiven through Job's intercession on their behalf.
		After the death of Job's first wife, Job marries Dinah (the name also given her in the Targum), who becomes the mother of three daughters that are inspired and chant hymns.
		Nahor, the brother of Job, continues the narrative by relating how at the end of three days he saw Job's spirit being taken away by shining chariots.
	www.earlyjewishwritings.com /testjob.html (707 words)

	THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Job 19: 23 - 26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Job’s prayer reaches out into the future, grasping and clutching, bringing from the future into the now what he knows will be his ultimate justification some day understood.
		As our Confession of 1967 reads, “With an urgency born of this hope, we live.” Job recognizes that in eternal time there is a different perspective from the one we have in the present confinement in temporal history.
		Men and women, when we have great love for someone, when we can muster the courage to overcome our cultural imprisonment, and when we can bring to our mind even the limited power and resources of a scientific imagination, then faith in the resurrection of the body and eternal life compels itself upon us.
	www.wooster.edu /westminster/sermons/2000/S000423.htm (1358 words)

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	Testament of Job
		29 Thus thou, O Job, art beneath and stricken with plague and pain, and yet thou hast carried the victory in the wrestling-match with me, and behold, I yield to thee".
		4 And Job lay down from sickness on his couch, yet without pain and suffering, because his pain did not take strong hold of him on account of, the charm of the girdle which he had wound around himself.
		9 And He took the soul of Job and He soared upward, taking her (the soul) by the arm and carrying her upon the chariot, and He went towards the East.
	wesley.nnu.edu /biblical_studies/noncanon/ot/pseudo/test-job.htm (7862 words)

	Testament of Job
		Book of Job, called Jobab, his life and the transcript of his Testament.
		How long wilt thou sit upon the dung-hill outside of the city, pondering yet for a while and expecting to obtain your hoped-for salvation!" 2 And I have been wandering from place to place, roaming about as a hired servant, behold they memory has already died away from earth.
		12 Then when Eliphaz, Baldad and Sophar saw that God had graciously pardoned their sin through His servant Job, but that He did not deign to pardon Elihu, then did Eliphaz begin to sing a hymn, while the others responded, their soldiers also joining while standing by the altar.
	www.angelfire.com /yt3/mxx/TestamentJob.htm (7779 words)

	Codex: Old Testament Commentary Survey - Wisdom & Psalms
		The book of Job is a powerful counterbalance to the retribution theology found throughout the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
		He views the book as revolving around a legal metaphor where Job is bringing a lawsuit against Yahweh.
		This is a translation of their volume in the Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament series, which is a first-rate critical commentary on the Psalms.
	biblical-studies.ca /ot_commentaries/wisdom_psalms.html (1175 words)

	Courson's Application Commentary on the Old Testament: Genesis - Job
		In his unique style, Pastor Jon has written an Old Testament commentary that is a scholarly work, but is easy to read and makes practical applications for us in our daily walk with Jesus.
		Courson's Application Commentary: Genesis - Job is an easy to read, verse-by-verse devotional commentary on the first half of the Old Testament.
		This resource features more than one hundred topical studies and sermons, each of which are filled with colorful information and background illustrations that will help you see each book of the Old Testament in a way you've never experienced.
	www.logos.com /ebooks/details/CNAPCOMOT01 (226 words)

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