The Book of Job (Hebrew איוב; Greek Ιώβ; Latin Iob) is a text contained in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

According to the sixth-century prophet Ezekiel, Job was a man of antiquity renowned for being a righteous man, and therefore the author of the book may have chosen him as a character in a wisdom story, a parable. The hypothesis that Job is merely a character in a story is also suggested by the name itself, which means "the persecuted one" and was discussed as early as antiquity by both Jews in the Babylonian Talmud and Christians.

The anonymous author was almost certainly an Israelite, although he set the story outside of Israel, in southern Edom or northern Arabia, making allusion to places as far apart as Mesopotamia and Egypt. Some narrative details suggest that the author had in mind the story of the Babylonian king Nabonides, who resided in the oasis of Tema between 550 and 540 BC due to a severe skin disease.

The book consists of 42 chapters describing the story of the wise Job, whose life is tested by inexplicable tribulations, with extensive meditations contained in dialogues with his three friends on why God allows evil to the righteous man (see Theodicy).

(From Italian Wikipedia).

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