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Job: protest and patience
A good man loses everything. What then?
Shared Stories · Job: protest and patience
Job (peace be upon him) is remembered by all three faiths: a righteous man who loses everything, and is restored.
In the Torah and the rabbis
The book of Job: the heavenly wager, three friends who explain too much, Job's honest protest, and God speaking “out of the whirlwind” (Job 38:1). The rabbis even argue over whether Job lived or was a parable (Bava Batra 15a).
In the Gospels and Christian tradition
James holds up “the perseverance of Job” (James 5:11, WEB) as a model for believers.
Same and different
The Hebrew Bible keeps Job's protest; the Qur'an his patience; James his perseverance. Both protest and patience can be faithful responses to suffering.
We never picture any prophet or Mary. Each panel is checked by a reader from that tradition before this page goes public.
