Job
a patriarch notable for his patience. In the English version of the tience. In the English version of the poetic books of the Old Testament, but Psalms and Proverbs preceding it, and the Song of Solomon comin coming next. A the Song of Solomon coming next. A (ch. xlii: 7-17), are in prose. The rest is poetry and of a very high order. (ch. xlii: 7-17), are in prose. The rest in the Old Testament. The hero is not a Jew. While the name Jehovah is used, the chosen people is ignored. The author seems well acquainted with Egypt, the chosen people is ignored. The (?) (iii: 14), and the desert with its its crocodiles (xli.), and its pyramids (?) (iii: 14), and the desert with its cessful, tent-living predatory tribes (xii: 6). The language is Hebrew, with various Aramaisms, and with a faint Arabic 6). The language is Hebrew, with varimentators is that the book is very ancient, and its author probably Moses. If so, then it is intelligible why there is a resemblance between expressions in Job and in Genesis. (See Gen. ii: 23, and resemblance between expressions in Job xxx: 31; Gen. vi: 2, and Job i: 6.) Others place it about the time of Solomon or that of one of the succeeding kings;