The Book of Job (; Hebrew: א ִ יו ֹ ב ‎ ʾ iyobh ), commonly referred to simply as Job, is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

His wife prompts him to " curse God, and die " but Job answers, " You speak as one of the foolish speaks.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

According to Maimonides, the correct view of providence lies with Elihu, who teaches Job that one must examine his religion ().

Conversely, in more recent times, Russian existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov viewed Job as the embodiment of the battle between reason ( which offers general and seemingly comforting explanations for complex events ) and faith in a personal god, and one man's desperate cry for him.

Chaplin was unimpressed with the conditions there, and after making one film ( His New Job, released 1 February 1915 ), moved to the company's small studio in Niles, California.

* In Tales to Astonish # 2 ( 1959 ) " My Job: To Catch a Martian ", a professor, who discovers an empty alien spacecraft, hires a private investigator to find the occupant when no one else will listen to him.

The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, " a girt one of the loins " of Proverbs 30: 31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through " A Dictionary of the Bible " which tells us that " Pindar ( ca.

There was also on the top of the throne a golden candelabrum, on the seven branches of the one side of which were engraved the names of the seven patriarchs Adam, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job, and on the seven of the other the names of Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses, Aaron, Eldad, Medad, and, in addition, Hur ( another version has Haggai ).

The Book of Job is one of the most widely known formulations in Western thought questioning why suffering exists.

Job Charnock was one of the first dreamers of a British empire in Bengal.

In rabbinic literature Balaam is represented as one of seven gentile prophets ; the other six being Beor ( Balaam's father ), Job, and Job's four friends ( Talmud, B.

* Leverage-uncredited as patient in neck brace in season one episode " The Snow Job "

Though some religions interpret Job 1: 4 to indicate birthday feasts of Job's sons, Jehovah's Witnesses interpret them as a circuit of feasts from one house to the next.

* Job 15: 15: Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight ; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

This traditional saltbox-style home at 295 North Road dates back to the early 18th century and was built by Job Lane ( 3 ), the grandson of one of Bedford's earliest settlers, Job Lane ( 1 ), a master carpenter.

He had a small role in the original film version of The Italian Job ( 1969 ) playing one of the gang, but had to wait a few years for his first success, playing scientist Toby Wren in the BBC's science fiction series, Doomwatch in 1970.

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

In 1977 Johnny Paycheck released a cover of Coe's " Take This Job And Shove It ," which was a number one hit and Coe's most successful song.

Job satisfaction has been found to be an important area of research because one of the top reasons individuals give for leaving a job is dissatisfaction.

Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job, said that " Peter has a great range from comedy to drama.

* Stearman, William L. " A Misguided Missile Ship: Old Battleships Would Do a Better Job Than a Pricey New Boat ," The Washington Post, ( 7 July 1996 ): C03.

The first permanent settlers in the area that is now Tehama County were Robert Hasty Thomes, Albert Gallatin Toomes, William George Chard, and Job Francis Dye.

In February 2009 he played William Quint in " The Juror # 6 Job ", an episode of the drama series Leverage directed by his Next Generation co-star Jonathan Frakes.

Tehama ( pronounced Tuh-HAY-muh ) was founded by Robert Hasty Thomes, who arrived in the area that is now Tehama County in the company of Albert G. Toomes, William Chard, and Job Francis Dye.

* William Job Collins ( 1859 – 1946 ), British surgeon and Liberal Party politician

* Harry Quincey in Uncle Harry, a thriller by Thomas Job, ( also co-directed with William Armstrong ) with Beatrix Lehmann as Leslie Quincey and Rachel Kempson as Lucy Forrest, Garrick Theatre March 1944

The brothers Job and William Wyatt found a way to produce a screw on an assembly line machine that first cut the slotted head, and then carved the helix.

* The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs ( first book, published in the US in 1969 )

Job with his three daughters by William Blake

* The Brink's Job ( 1978, William Friedkin )

* William Job Collins-Surgeon and politician

In 1919, the rival International Film Service studio folded and owner William Randolph Hearst licensed Bray to continue the IFS series, which included Jerry on the Job films adapted from Walter Hoban's comic strip.

On School Road is the Church of the Ascension, formerly the Job Marston Chapel, which was built in 1704 and is believed to have been designed by Sir William Wilson.

* Life and Work of Sir Samuel Romilly, by William Job Collins, in Transactions of the Huguenot Society ( 1908 ).

Among his notable pupils were William Sterndale Bennett, Lucy Anderson, Stephen Codman, George Job Elvey, Cipriani Potter, and Charles Kensington Salaman.

Her brother-in-law Geoffrey Keynes asked her to provide scenery and costumes for a proposed ballet drawn from William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job to commemorate the centennial of Blake's death ; her second cousin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, wrote the music to the work which became known as Job, a masque for dancing, the premiere of which took place in Cambridge in 1931.

Liber Jobi in versiculos metrice divisus ; accedit canticum Moysis from 1742 resulted in the 1744 An Answer to Mr. Warburton's " Remarks on several Occasional Reflections " so far as they concern the preface to a late edition of the Book of Job, in allusion to which William Warburton in the second part of his ' Remarks ' called him an " impotent railer ".

Urizen appears within Blake's illustrations of Job as an image of Apollo.

Other holdings include material from ancient Egypt and medieval liturgical objects ( including Coptic literature examples ), Emile Zola, William Blake's original drawings for his edition of the Book of Job ; concept drawings for The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; a Percy Bysshe Shelley notebook ; originals of poems by Robert Burns ; a Charles Dickens manuscript of A Christmas Carol ; a journal by Henry David Thoreau ; an extraordinary collection of autographed and annotated libretti and scores from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mahler and Verdi, and Mozart's Haffner Symphony in D Major ; and manuscripts of George Sand, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë and nine of Sir Walter Scott's novels, including Ivanhoe.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

Scroll of the Book of Job in Hebrew.

Another example of text from the last chapter or epilogue of Job can be found in the book The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, showing examples of how fragments of The Book of Job found among the scrolls differ from the text as now known.

" The Protestation of Guiltlessness ," from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, is a collection of assertions of innocence which were included in ancient Egyptian burial rites, and is often compared to Job, especially chapter 31.

In most traditions of Jewish liturgy, the Book of Job is not read publicly in the manner of the Pentateuch, Prophets, or megillot.

However, there are some Jews, particularly the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who do hold public readings of the Book of Job on the Tisha B ' Av fast ( a day of mourning over the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies ).

The cantillation signs for the large poetic section in the middle of the Book of Job differ from those of most of the biblical books, using a system shared with it only by Psalms and Proverbs.

Many quotes from the Book of Job are used throughout Jewish liturgy, especially at funerals and times of mourning.

The Roman Catholic Church traditionally reads from the Book of Job during Matins in the first two weeks of September, as well as in the Office of the Dead.

* Book of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts

* Stella Papadaki-Oekland ," Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts of the Book of Job ", ISBN 2-503-53232-2,

* Sephardic Cantillations for the Book of Job by David M. Betesh and the Sephardic Pizmonim Project

* Introduction to The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Job ; Book of Job

* Translations of The Book of Job at BibleGateway. com

* Hebrew and English Parallel and Complete Text of the Book of Job English Translation is the 1917 Old JPS

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The biblical Book of Job ( dating to the 6th to 4th century BC ) also makes reference to a number of constellations, including " bier ", " fool " and " heap " ( Job 9: 9, 38: 31-32 ), rendered as " Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades " by the KJV, but ` Ayish " the bier " actually corresponding to Ursa Major.