Lewis, C S The Problem of Pain Morgan, G Campbell The Answers of Jesus to Job Unger, Merrill F Unger’s Bible Handbook In ancient times the Jews regarded Job, Proverbs, and Psalms as the major poetical names They called them Books of ‘Emeth (‘Truth”), the word ‘emeth representing the rst letters of the names of each of the three books ‘iov (Job), meshallim (Proverbs), and tehillim (Psalms) J Sidlow Baxter, Explore the Book, 3:11 W T Purkiser, Exploring the Old Testament, pp 213-14 A few passages re ect something of rhyme in Hebrew (e.g., Job 10:9-18; Psalm A metaphor is a gure of speech in which a word or phrase which ordinarily means one thing is used of another thing in order to suggest a likeness between the two (e.g., “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.” Gen 49:27) An antithesis is a contrast of ideas (e.g., Psalm 1:6) See Purkiser, pp 211-13, for descriptions of other types of parallelism The list is from Baxter, 3:10 The middle list is from John Phillips, Exploring the Scriptures, p 98; the right-hand list is from Baxter, 3:13 Used by permission 10 If Job was a contemporary of Abraham, or lived after him, then he was a believer outside the covenant family of Israel (cf Acts 14:17) 11 The “burnt o erings” of 1:5 are not Levitical offerings, according to this view 12 References to a Job as early as 2000 B.C appear in extrabiblical texts The footnote of the Berkeley Version at 42:16-17 reads, “His many years [140] suggest the period of Abraham.” 13 This open question of human authorship and date does not limit one’s study of this remarkable book of the Old Testament 14 Meredith G Kline, Mob,” in The Wycli e Bible Commentary, p 460 15 E Heavenor, “Job,” in The New Bible Commentary, rev ed., p 422 16 This procedure is deductive in nature If one followed the inductive approach here, he would arrive at character descriptions of the men after he had completed studying the Bible text 17 Some feel that Eliphaz was the oldest of the three men, for which Oriental courtesy gave him the right to speak rst in a group than-thou attitude 18 The format of such versions as the New American Standard Bible is excellent for a study of a book like Job The prose (narrative) is printed in the usual style, and the speeches, which are dramatic poetry, are printed in stanzas made up of single lines 19 Heavenor, pp 442-43 20 See C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain, pp 14 ff., for answers to this challenge ... followed the inductive approach here, he would arrive at character descriptions of the men after he had completed studying the Bible text 17 Some feel that Eliphaz was the oldest of the three... texts The footnote of the Berkeley Version at 42:16-17 reads, “His many years [140] suggest the period of Abraham.” 13 This open question of human authorship and date does not limit one’s study of. .. between the two (e.g., “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.” Gen 49:27) An antithesis is a contrast of ideas (e.g., Psalm 1:6) See Purkiser, pp 211-13, for descriptions of other types of parallelism The