Fairness Of Jobs Suffering
Definition
The book’s hybrid structure: a narrative prologue and epilogue enclosing poetic speeches; the human speakers’ ignorance of the heavenly wager creates tension between frame and body.
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Prose Frame And Poetic Middle
Biblical References
- Job 1:1 — * There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. *
- Job 1:21 — *He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!” *
- Job 1:22 — *In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety. *
- Job 2:9 — *Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!” *
- Job 2:10 — *But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said. *
- Job 3:1–26 — *After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. Job spoke up and said: “Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’ That day—let it be darkness; let not *