Job, cited

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Letters Basil of Caesarea 5 authority · 1 endorsed 6 citations

   letter 5 · letter 8 · letter 38 · letter 212 · letter 223 · letter 300

   Job's story is invoked directly as precedent.

   And so now too, since the time of silence has been sufficient, it is at last seasonable to open the mouth for the disclosure of the truth about the things that are not known.

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 4 authority · 1 endorsed 5 citations · 6 passages

   book 3 · book 4 4 passages anchored here · book 7

   Job is named as speaker of the quoted statement used to argue against blaming infants for Adam's curse.

   "No one is clean from filth," says Job, "not even if his life be one day.

3. Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 15 2 passages anchored here · ch. 25

   The Arabic qawl Ayyūb introduces the quotation as evidence within the testimony chain.

   “Thou didst take clay from the earth and make a rational animal and set it upon the earth” (2);

4. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 9

   Explicitly cited by chapter and verse as corroborating evidence.

   Now among the commandments given by God to the children of Noah, it is said, that death was expressly declared to be the punishment not only for murder, but for adultery, incest, and robbery, which is confirmed by the words of Job xxxi.

5. De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 1

   The passage explicitly quotes the substance of Job's saying to argue against seeking to restore what God has taken away.

   The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away;

6. De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de fuga in persecutione

   Directly invokes the narrative and quoted divine speech of the Job story as authoritative proof of the argument.

   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;

7. De Patientia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de patientia

   The passage narrates in detail the losses, affliction, wife's provocation, and doubled restoration matching the Book of Job, without naming the source text directly but clearly invoking it as authority.

   For he was not called away from the regard for God by so many griefs, but stood as an example and testimony to us, in spirit as in flesh, in mind as in body, of patience to be carried through — so that we may give way neither at the losses of worldly things, nor at the losses of our dearest, nor even at the afflictions of the body.