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Job
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Job. (persecuted).
1. The third son of Issachar, Genesis 46:13, called, in another genealogy, Jashub. 1 Chronicles 7:1.
2. Job, the patriarch, from whom one of the books of the Old Testament is named. His residence in the land of Uz, marks him as belonging to a branch of the Aramean race, which had settled in the lower part of Mesopatamia, (probably to the south or southeast of Palestine, in Idumean Arabia), adjacent to the Sabeans and Chaldeans.
The opinions of Job and his friends are, thus, peculiarly interesting as exhibiting an aspect of the patriarchal religion, outside of the family of Abraham, and as yet, uninfluenced by the legislation of Moses. The form of worship belongs essentially, to the early patriarchal type; with little of ceremonial ritual, without a separate priesthood, it is thoroughly domestic in form and spirit. Job is represented as a chieftain of immense wealth and high rank, blameless in all the relations of life. What we know of his history, is given in the book that bears his name.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Job'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/j/job.html. 1901.
