The Book of Job

It's good...but it's bad. Religions man...I don't know what else to say. Job lives a terrible life due to God's bet with the devil.It's a sad life Job lives.

This is a great book to study the Book of Job. It has a great commentary for each verse of the book.

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Informative and insightful fresh translation by a top Hebrew scholar. The detailed Introduction (almost 40 pages, plus notes) alone is worth reading to get a thorough backgrounding on the book.The translation text is also written in straightforward direct English:"A man once lived in the land of Utz. His name was Job. This man was innocent, upright, and God-fearing, and kept himself apart from evil. Seven sons and three daughters were born to him. His flock consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a large staff of servants. He was the greatest of the men of the East." (Job 1)Now for the high drama narrative:One day, the lesser gods came to attend upon Yahweh, and the Accuser came among them. Yahweh said to the Accuser, "Where are you coming from?" and the Accuser answered Yahweh, "From roving and roaming about the world." Yahweh said to the Accuser, "Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on earth: innocent, upright, and God-fearing, and keeping himself apart from evil." The Accuser answered Yahweh: "Is Job God-fearing for nothing? Look how you have sheltered him on all sides, him and his household and everything he has, and have blessed everything he does, so that his cattle have spread out all over the land. But reach out with your hand and strike his property, and watch him curse you to your face!"In the detailed notes (starting from pg 161), the origin of the name "Job" is also thoroughly explained. In Hebrew it is lyyov, which means "a person who is the object of enemity". The meaning is appropriate to Job's role in the story that it may well have dictated the choice, says Raymond Scheindlin.In the section when Yahweh replied to Job, the beauty and majesty of the language is evident in the translation:"Where were you when I founded the earth?Speak if you have any wisdom:Who set its measurements, if you know,laid out the building lot, stretching the plumb line?Where was the ground where He sank the foundations?Who was setting the cornerstonewhen the morning stars were all singing,when the gods were all shouting, triumphant?Who barred the sea behind double gatesas it was gushing out of the womb?(and so on...)and then on pg 149, God throws a challenge to Job:One who brings Shaddai to court should fight!He who charges a god should speak.Wow! (Note: My review is based on the First Edition, 1998)

I was looking for jobs so I bought this thought JOB was just a typo but when I read it all there was a bunch of bible stuff