Job
historical figure · 6 works · 17 mentions · 20 anchored passages
Ayyūb · ايوب · great Job · he · that man · the great Job · the great athlete Job · the noble Job · workman of God's victory
in the texts
Letters
Biblical figure presented as model of courage and endurance in loss.
Therefore in all things we ought to revere His love for mankind and not be vexed, remembering that great and celebrated utterance which the great athlete Job sent forth, when he saw at a single table ten children crushed in a brief moment of time:
A very great road toward the discovery of one's duty is also the study of the inspired Scriptures.
who, if He sees us receiving the present circumstances with thanksgiving, will either remit the things that grieve us, as in the case of Job, or will reward us with the great crowns of endurance in the condition that follows after this our life.
Stromata
The sufferer cited as blessing God when tested, an exemplar of gnostic endurance.
he will bless when tested, like the noble Job;
"No one is clean from filth," says Job, "not even if his life be one day.
And yet Job too, by surpassing continence and excellence of faith, having become poor from rich, dishonoured from honoured, ugly from comely, and sick from healthy, is set down for us as a good example, abashing the tempter, blessing his Maker, bearing the latter state as he had borne the former, teaching very well that the gnostic can in all circumstances make good use of them.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The biblical Job, quoted for the statement that man was made a rational animal from clay, which the chapter reads as denying pre-existence.
“Thou didst take clay from the earth and make a rational animal and set it upon the earth” (2);
[33] 2) The Book of Ayyūb 10:
10, 22, 22, 33, 37, 43, 43, 45, 53 The Acts of the Apostles 37, 55 The Epistle of Buṭrus the Apostle 46 The Epistles of Būlus the Apostle 9, 10, 22, 22, 29, 37, 44, 51 The Book of Leviticus 33 The Book of Ayyūb 33 The Book of Genesis 10, 33 The Book of Ecclesiastes 37 The Book of Exodus 21, 43, 55 The Book of Psalms 10, 21 (8 times), 22, 37, 38, 38 The Prophecy of Zakariyā 33
Adversus Marcionem
Righteous man over whose body Satan was given power by the Creator, so that his virtue might be proved.
Or is he himself perchance the one who also gave Satan power over the body of Job, that virtue might be approved in weakness?
De Fuga in Persecutione
Biblical figure afflicted by Satan only by God's explicit permission.
You have the example of Job, on whom the devil could inflict no temptation, unless he had received the power from God—not even upon his substance, until the Lord had said, "Behold, all that he has I give into your hand;
De Patientia
The righteous sufferer who lost his herds, wealth, sons, and bodily health, yet kept faith and patience, responding to his wife's urging with 'Thanks be to God,' and was restored doubled by God.
— whom neither the herds driven off, nor those riches in cattle, nor sons carried away in one onslaught of ruin, nor finally the torment of his own body in its wounds, shut out from the patience and faith yielded to the Lord;