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Job

An imagined, stylized portrait. No one knows what Job looked like. AI-generated

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In the book of Job, a blameless man who loses his children, wealth and health, argues with his friends over why, and is answered by God from a whirlwind.

See Job 1:1, Job 1:19, Job 2:7, Job 38:1.

A broken piece of pottery marks Job in the reading view: he took a potsherd to scrape himself and sat among the ashes (Job 2:8).

Mentioned in 53 verses across 3 books, first in James 5:11. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

How artists have pictured him

3 works from different centuries and traditions. Each shows how its time and place imagined Job, not how he looked.

Georges de La Tour, Job Mocked by His Wife, Oil on canvas, Musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain, Épinal — **1630s** · Georges de La Tour, *Job Mocked by His Wife*. Oil on canvas, Musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain, ÉpinalPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

William Blake, Job and His Daughters, Tempera on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington — **c. 1799–1800** · William Blake, *Job and His Daughters*. Tempera on canvas, National Gallery of Art, WashingtonPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons

The Righteous Job the Long-suffering, North Russian icon (Mstera) — **Undated** · *The Righteous Job the Long-suffering*. North Russian icon (Mstera)Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 1720 BC · died c. 1580 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Dates before the time of the kings are not historically established, and scholars disagree widely about them.

Family

Children

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

God22 verses
Eliphaz3 verses
Zophar2 verses
Bildad2 verses
Daniel2 verses
Noah2 verses
Elihuson of Barachel2 verses
Jesus Christ1 verse
Ram1 verse
Barachel1 verse

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Uz1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 1 verse in James, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

James

James 5:11
See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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Events

Events the dataset lists Job as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 1720 BC
Birth of JobGenesis 46:13
c. 1720 BC
Lifetime of JobGenesis 46:13 – Job 42:17
c. 1650 BC
Job's TrialJob 1:1–42:17
c. 1580 BC
Death of JobJob 42:16–17

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid all his sufferings he maintained his integrity. Once more God visited him with the rich tokens of his goodness and even greater prosperity than he had enjoyed before. He survived the period of trial for one hundred and forty years, and died in a good old age, an example to succeeding generations of integrity (Ezek. 14:14, 20) and of submissive patience under the sorest calamities (James 5:11). His history, so far as it is known, is recorded in his book.