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The Book of Job, a commentary
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- Creator
- Norman C. Habel
- Included Title
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- Bible. Job. English. 1985
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ©1985
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 586 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0664218318, 9780664218317, 0664222188, 9780664222185
- OCLC
- ocm11235432
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-19).
- Introduction -- Commentary -- The affliction of Job -- Job's cries against his origin -- The counsel of Eliphaz the friend -- Job's expose of false friends -- Job's complaint against God the watcher -- Bildad's ancient parable of the two plants -- Job on the futility of litigation -- Zophar on God's inscrutable wisdom -- Job on knowledge and wisdom -- Job's pretrial declaration -- Job's unorthodox hope -- Eliphaz on knowledge and retribution -- Job's complaints against friend and foe -- Bildad on the world of the wicked -- Job's hope of a redeemer -- Zophar on the fate of the wicked -- Job's disputation on the wicked -- Eliphaz's indictments of Job -- Job's quest to face God -- On delayed retribution -- [Bildad] on God's cosmic design -- Job's oath of integrity -- [Zophar] on the destiny of the wicked -- Poem on the quest for wisdom -- Job's speech of remembrance -- Job's final complaint -- Job's oath of purity -- The person and apology of Elihu -- Elihu's case against Job -- Elihu's defense of El's justice -- Elihu's defense of El's detachment -- Elihu's second defense of El's justice -- Yahweh's defense of his cosmic desigh -- Yahweh's control of behemoth and leviathan -- The restoration of Job