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The Bible Old Testament/Tanakh Genesis | Exodus | Joshua | Judges | Ruth | Samuel | Kings | Ezra | Nehemiah | Esther | Job | Psalms | Proverbs | Ecclesiastes | Songs | Isaiah | Jeremiah | Ezekiel | Daniel | Hosea | Joel | Amos | Obadiah | Jonah | Micah | Nahum | Habakkuk | Zephania | Haggai | Zechariah | Malachi Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Tobit | Judith | Maccabees New Testament Gospels | Acts | Romans | Corinthians | Galatians | Ephesians | Philippians | Colossians | Thessalonians | Timothy | Titus | Philemon | Hebrews | James | Peter | John | Jude | RevelationThe 18th book in the Christian Bible's established order, and appearing in the ketuvim (writings) section of the Hebrew Tanakh. Despite being near the middle, the story of Job is probably the first one written, even before the Pentateuch.Job is an honest upright man, blessed with wealth and children, but Satan challenges God that Job is only devout because of the blessings his life has given him. God decides to prove Satan wrong and demonstrate Job's genuine piety by allowing Satan to rob him of his life of blessing, in order to show Satan that even when alone, impoverished and suffering, Job will keep the faith.The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1958 play J.B. is the book of Job with a Setting Update to the modern day. Besides that, there’s enough stories and characters that reference the book of Job that it counts as Adaptation Overdosed. | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: "Sons of fools and nameless nobodies, they were driven out of the land with whips." (Job 30:8, Evangelical Heritage Version) | |
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Egocentrically Religious | |
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Egocentrically Religious: Satan accuses Job of only worshiping God because God has given him material blessings; God allows him to test this claim by causing Job to suffer. Much of the rest of the book explores and challenges the belief that bad things only happen to people who do wrong or are insufficiently devout. | |
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TheDevil | |
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The Devil: Unbuilt Trope. Satan is a main character, but rather than being named the Lord of Darkness, he freely circulates in Heaven and converses (albeit rather impudently) with God Himself. His role seems to be something of a trickster prosecutor, trying to prove that Job's alleged devotion to God is not really genuine. However, "Satan" was a generic noun for adversary or accuser, and that it refers to a role rather than a distinct person; as such, this is the original Devil's Advocate. As it's one of the oldest stories in the Old Testament and mentions other "holy ones," this may indicate it comes from the religion's early polytheistic period. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: Job's friends spend a lot of their time reasoning that Job must have done something wrong to deserve all his sufferings, and making theological arguments with Job to try to get him to agree. Job calls them out as "mischievous comforters." | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Why the three friends argue that Job must have done something wrong to deserve his suffering. | |
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Too Happy to Live | |
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Too Happy to Live: The book starts out with everything going well for Job, who is happy, devout, prosperous and has a loving family. Guess what happens next. | |
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The Tooth Hurts | |
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The Tooth Hurts: "The lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken." (Job 4:10, International Standard Version) "I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth." (Job 29:17, NIV 1984 edition) | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: Perhaps one of the most extreme examples of this trope of all time. To say God puts Job through the wringer is an understatement and gives him a pretty brutal verbal beat down, but in the end God Is Good and Job is rewarded for admitting his faults and keeping his faith. | |
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Condescending Compassion | |
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Condescending Compassion: At no point do Job's accusers offer him the food or medicine that he sorely needs living on the streets — yet they claim to be his friends. They just want to tell him how much he sucks. | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: When God appears before Job, He gives a speech describing His creation, essentially daring Job: "I created the entire universe. You mean to tell Me you know better than I do?!" The above goes into almost giddy detail, like how much fun it is to watch ostriches run. Several verses also mention the concept of hydrologic cycles, telecommunications using lightning and deep sea exploration before they were discovered. | |
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness | |
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Job is introduced as a righteous man, and in spite of the inexplicable suffering he is forced to undergo, he refuses to sin by cursing God. | |
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Old Windbag | |
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Old Windbag: Job 8:1-2 from the New International Version (1984 edition): Job says this of his friends in Job 16:3 (God's Word translation): | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: The book is controversial for many reasons, namely, Job does not curse God directly like Satan bet he would, but by cursing his birth, he by proxy implicitly cursed the creator who gave him life, meaning Satan won the bet. God now has to give "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the ruined man. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Whereas Leviathan is treated as a monstrous being to be feared, Behemoth, which is believed to be either an elephant, a hippo, or something other large beast, is treated as relatively peaceful despite its incredible power. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Elihu says that he wants to see Job justified. A few lines after this he slanders Job, for supposedly enjoying his negative feelings and approving of wicked men's actions. | |
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Shutting Up Now | |
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Shutting Up Now: Job gets an earful from God, and responds with "I clap my hand to my mouth." | |
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World's Most Beautiful Woman | |
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World's Most Beautiful Woman: Job's three new daughters Jemimah, Keziah, and Keren-Happuch are said to be more beautiful than any other women in the land. | |
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Mystical Plague | |
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Mystical Plague: Job is inflicted with sores when Satan is given permission to attack Job's health. It becomes so severe that Job's wife tells him to curse God and die, which he refuses to do. | |
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Spiteful Spit | |
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Spiteful Spit: Job 17:6 has Job saying, “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit." He also says in Job 30:10, "They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me." | |
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Forgotten Framing Device | |
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Forgotten Framing Device: The bet with Satan isn't mentioned after the initial parts of the story. Some commentators believe that this indicates that it was a later addition to explain Job's suffering, but it could just be that it wasn't considered important since the resolution was obvious. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: For most of the story, it's just Job and his friends arguing over his fate and Job protesting that he doesn't deserve any of this. Until, without warning, we get this: "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind" | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Satan. He doesn't stay in the story long enough to see how it all turns out. | |
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Methuselah Syndrome | |
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Methuselah Syndrome: Not as long as the actual Methuselah, but still pretty long; Job lives to be 140, old enough to see his great-great grandchildren. | |
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Or to humiliate Satan. Morale is important on battlefields, even spiritual ones — and what could shame the enemy side more than letting them do their worst and then showing them that all their efforts came to nothing? (Assuming that the modern depiction of Satan as spiteful is correct, which it may not be — see The Devil trope entry above.) | |
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Heaven's Devils | |
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Heaven's Devils: The Book of Job is the Trope Maker, where ha-satan ("The Accuser") is a member of God's divine council. When God points out Job as a righteous and virtuous man who has never turned away from Him, Satan claims that Job is a loyal servant of God because he has everything he could possibly want, and if he lost all of that, he would curse God and turn away from him. God agrees that Satan may put his claim to the test. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: It’s easy to have faith when things are going well, but having faith in times of trial and heartbreak is the true test. | |
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God Test | |
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God Test: God Himself invokes this upon Job in Job 40:9-14: | |
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Omniscient Morality License | |
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Omniscient Morality License: God points this out to Job in the end. He doesn't apologize to the wretched man whose life and children he allowed Satan to destroy on a bet. | |
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Fallen Angel | |
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Fallen Angel: Not the actual trope but its prototype is here, and is the strongest rebuttal to those who claim the concept is incompatible with Judaism. 4:18 is below; 15:15 can also be a case, but amusingly the book makes no insinuations that Satan did anything wrong beyond being mistaken in his malicious judgment of Job. | |
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Sacred Hospitality | |
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Sacred Hospitality: "No stranger ever had to spend the night outside. I have opened my door to the traveler." (Job 31:32, Evangelical Heritage Version) | |
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Replacement Goldfish | |
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Replacement Goldfish: God restores Job's wealth and family after the ordeal is over. His old children are still dead, so God grants Job a new set of replacement, more beautiful children. | |
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Trauma Conga Line | |
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Trauma Conga Line: An Ur-Example. Job loses his family, his home, his possessions and his health, all in apparently under an hour, simply because Satan didn't like him and/or needed to tear someone else down to feel better about himself. Servants rush in to inform Job of the latest tragedy to plague his estate even while previous servants are still informing him of the one before it. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Job's wife past chapter 2. We never know whether Job and her separated or made amends or what; we just know that Job had seven sons and three daughters after everything gets straightened out. Though The Qur'an says they did make amends. | |
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God Is Good | |
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God Is Good: A righteous man suffers through no fault of his own, causing him to wonder how a good, omnipotent God could let this happen. After Job discusses this with three friends, God Himself appears to provide context for Job's situation. God poises a series of rhetorical questions that show the sheer scale of existence God is responsible for, from the foundation of the Earth to the nourishment of the raven. Job agrees that he clearly doesn't have a wide enough understanding of the universe to moralize (to) an omniscient, prompting God to also dare Job to take upon God's role, whether it be humbling the proud, tearing down the wicked, and controlling the Leviathans or the Behemoths that bring chaos. Upon hearing all this, Job repents and God restores his prosperity, although not before rebuking Job's friends for not speaking rightly concerning God in trying to explain Job's suffering. | |
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Angry, Angry Hippos | |
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Angry, Angry Hippos: Chapter 40 mentions Behemoth, a powerful and virtually invincible creature that it is said only God can defeat. While the Hebrew name is ambiguous, many commentators believe that Behemoth is based on a hippo, since it eats grass, lives in a river, and has strong bones. | |
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And Now for Someone Completely Different | |
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And Now for Someone Completely Different: Elihu is not mentioned in the Book of Job at all prior to Chapter 32, at which point he pops up to rebuke both Job and his three friends. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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For that matter, Elihu pops out of nowhere, delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to both Job and his three friends, and then just disappears again. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Job comments on being this in Job 9:27-28 (NIV 1984 edition): | |
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Shameful Strip | |
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Shameful Strip: Job says this of God in Job 12:19: | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? Satan appears only in the first two chapters to challenge God and then apparently just walks off as the rest of the book focuses on Job and his three friends. For that matter, Elihu pops out of nowhere, delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to both Job and his three friends, and then just disappears again. | |
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Trope Namers | |
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One of the Trope Namers, the Leviathan, comes from this book, described as a gigantic sea serpent. Some interpretations identify it with whales or crocodiles. The text doesn't treat it as particularly significant, just tossing it into the list of known animals and natural phenomena. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Job in Job 31:9-12 says: | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Discussed Trope; Job's friends claim his sufferings are the result of some sin he has committed and hidden from them. Job protests that he has been upstanding for all of his life and God Himself confirms that Job's friends are speaking falsely. | |
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Broke Episode | |
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Broke Episode: The whole story is one long miserable chapter in Job's life where he has lost all his riches and goes through much suffering before he gets them back. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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Sarcasm Mode: Job, in response to Bildad the Shuhite's third discourse: God, during His speech with Job.'' | |
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Bewildering Punishment | |
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Bewildering Punishment: Job complains that if his friends are right and God is punishing him for some sin, then the punishment is this trope since God hasn't revealed what he did wrong. In fact Job's friends are wrong and Job's situation isn't a punishment for his sin at all. | |
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Ironic Birthday | |
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Ironic Birthday: Although the text never specifically states that the seven sons' appointed feasting days happened on their birthdays, it is implied that at least on one of them — the eldest son's birthday — that tragedy had struck all Job's first ten children in one day when the house fell upon them and killed them. | |
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Parental Neglect | |
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Parental Neglect: According to Job 39, the female ostrich lays her eggs in the dust but soon forgets about them and shows no interest in her young as they grow up. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Satan is never called to task by God or anyone else, for destroying Job's life and killing his original children. One of many reasons why this book is so controversial. | |
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Good Running Evil | |
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Good Running Evil: Satan is shown to cause suffering for Job only with God's explicit permission. God is keeping Satan on a leash, so-to-speak. | |
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Fatal Flaw | |
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Fatal Flaw: In the beginning of the book, Job was fearful that, while he was rightful in front of God's eyes, maybe his children have done wrong. This fear allowed Satan to imply to God that Job wasn't trusting him as much. | |
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Character Filibuster | |
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Character Filibuster: Job and his three friends really liked to talk. And God and Elihu go on for just as long. At one point God just starts listing animals and monsters for a full chapter out of the clear blue to make a point. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: The main plot is set up with a bet between God and Satan over whether or not Job is truly devoted in his faith or just a fair weather follower of the Lord. Satan thinks he'll curse God's name once he loses everything while God thinks he'll stay true in his devotion. God is right. | |
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Cosmic Plaything | |
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Cosmic Plaything: Job has his property, his children, and his health ripped away from him by Satan, which God allowed while only ensuring that Satan didn't go so far as to kill Job and put him out of his misery. | |
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Heal the Cutie | |
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Heal the Cutie: Job was a good, righteous man with much wealth and a large family. When the Adversary/Satan argues to God that Job is only good because of his circumstances, God permits him to take away all Job has, and later to afflict his health. In his harsh circumstances and despair, Job curses his own birth but refuses to renounce God. In the end, God restores Job's fortunes. | |
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Your Days Are Numbered | |
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Your Days Are Numbered: "Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed." (Job 14:5, NIV 1984 edition) | |
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Hope Sprouts Eternal | |
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Hope Sprouts Eternal: In Chapter 14, Job compares the life of a man to that of a tree, that, unlike a man who will die and just go to his grave, a tree when it is cut down will again sprout up and regrow itself. | |
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Rage Against the Heavens | |
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Rage Against the Heavens: Defied. The Adversary/Satan challenges God that if Job suffered a lot, he would curse God for his suffering. Job has lost his children, wealth, and health in the hands of the Adversary/Satan (albeit under the permission of God as a Secret Test and the Adversary/Satan is not allowed to kill Job). Job remains faithful no matter what happened to him and how many of his friends told him to curse God. He does, at one point, break down and curse himself and the day when he was born. The end result is God Himself calling Job and his friends out, Job repents and God restores the damages by giving Job new daughters, restoring his home and his livestocks. | |
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Posthumous Sibling | |
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Posthumous Sibling: Job has seven sons and three daughters after losing the first ten children to an accident caused by Satan through his bet with the Lord. | |
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Curse Is Foiled Again | |
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Curse Is Foiled Again: Job has curses and misfortune heaped upon him and everyone close to him, due to a bet between God and Satan. After sucking it up and maintaining his faith and loyalty for long enough, he received double what he lost, and ten more children. However, he didn't get any of his dead children back. | |
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SmiteMeOhMightySmiter | |
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Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Satan tried to invoke this reaction, and Job's own wife suggested it so he could be put out of his misery. It didn't work. | |
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Money Is Not Power | |
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Money Is Not Power: In Elihu's rebuke, he warns: "Be careful that no one entices you by riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside. Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?" (Job 36:18-19, NIV 2011 edition) | |
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Kaiju | |
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Kaiju: The Behemoth (an immense land beast even bigger than an elephant) and leviathan (a giant sea serpent) are ur examples of Kaijus. | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Job himself went through this. He was one of the wealthiest men in the world, but lost everything. He eventually gets it back, and twice as much. | |
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Kraken and Leviathan | |
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Kraken and Leviathan: One of the Trope Namers, the Leviathan, comes from this book, described as a gigantic sea serpent. Some interpretations identify it with whales or crocodiles. The text doesn't treat it as particularly significant, just tossing it into the list of known animals and natural phenomena. There is also Rahab the sea monster, whom Job mentions in Job 26:12 that God has killed. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: God's lengthy speech to Job was more of a rebuke for him questioning His authority. He then calls out Job's friends for their arrogant "he had it coming" accusations of Job. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: Job never finds out why God let him suffer, but he is reassured that God loves him and has not forgotten him even the midst of his disgrace. That knowledge alone is enough to console him. | |
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Zen Survivor | |
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Zen Survivor | |
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You Talk Too Much! | |
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You Talk Too Much!: From Zophar the Naamathite to Job: "Shouldn’t a multitude of words be answered, or a person who talks too much be vindicated?" (Job 11:2, International Standard Version) | |
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Deus Angst Machina | |
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Deus Angst Machina: Escalating from losing his material goods, to his family, to his health. | |
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Open and Shut | |
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Open and Shut: Job says this of God in Job 12:14: | |
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Spare a Messenger | |
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Spare a Messenger: Bad things constantly happen to Job, and each time there is one survivor who seems to have survived only so Job knows what's going on. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Despair Speech: Job's monologues express his deep desire to be with the dead, who don't have to toil through sleepless nights as he does with his boils and pains. His wise friends criticize him for his despair, but all that does is make him mad and give him more fuel to demand some justification before God for why the just and the wicked alike are destroyed. | |
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Rules Lawyer | |
| Book of Job / int_eb8e12d6 | comment |
Rules Lawyer: As David Plotz points out, he accused God of wrongdoing, but didn't technically curse Him, as Satan had wanted. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Job experienced so much suffering specifically because he was a moral and upright man, which inspired Satan to want to test his true devotion to God. | |
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Burning with Anger | |
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Burning with Anger: Job says in Job 30:27 (International Standard Version), "I’m boiling mad inside, and I won’t remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived." | |
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In Mysterious Ways | |
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In Mysterious Ways: In the end you see Job humiliate himself before God. It was all to teach him humility and dependence on Him. Or to humiliate Satan. Morale is important on battlefields, even spiritual ones — and what could shame the enemy side more than letting them do their worst and then showing them that all their efforts came to nothing? (Assuming that the modern depiction of Satan as spiteful is correct, which it may not be — see The Devil trope entry above.) | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Despite all the suffering which Job endures, God restores his fortunes in the end, proving His faithfulness and goodness, despite the mistakes Job had made along the way. Even back then, Job kept his head above water. | |
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Religious Russian Roulette | |
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Religious Russian Roulette: Over the course of the book, Job worked his way up to demanding answers from God, not only from the tragedies Satan inflicted, but from his know-it-all friends dragging down his morale. God does step in eventually in response to Job's demands, but doesn't give an answer and only says "Who are you to speak back to Me?" | |
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Riches to Rags | |
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Riches to Rags: Job says this of the wicked in Job 27:19: Job himself went through this. He was one of the wealthiest men in the world, but lost everything. He eventually gets it back, and twice as much. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: Job's visitors keep insisting that he must have done something to deserve all his suffering, and they turn on him when he denies it, essentially "kicking him while he's down." In the end, God is far angrier with them than with Job, but pardons them when Job, despite everything, brings an offering on their behalf. | |
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Death Seeker | |
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Death Seeker: 3:21 and 22 (it goes on longer, as Character Filibuster above describes) | |
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