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Old Testament · Wisdom & Poetry · Wisdom
Job
An innocent sufferer and his friends argue about why suffering happens, and God answers unexpectedly.
- Where this sits in the story
- Stands apart from the national story to ask a human question.
- Era
- Outside Israel's timeline, in the world of wisdom debate
- Attributed to
- Anonymous; date debated
- Length
- 42 chapters · KJV — public domain
Background written for this app. Attribution and dating are stated as tradition or debate, not as settled fact.
Chapters
New to this? Where to start
Chapter 1 is a fine place to begin, but you do not have to read in order. Dots mark chapters that already have a hand-written study.