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The Book of Job

Anonymous

Form
Form Religious Text
Year
Year 600 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Hebrew
Pages
Pages 50

A blameless man loses children, wealth and health on a wager in heaven, refuses his friends' tidy explanations, and demands an answer from God, who replies from the whirlwind with creation itself.

The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
The Book of Job, Anonymous

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