《旧约》中〈约伯记〉的中心人物，即使遭遇许多不幸他还是敬畏上帝。最初，约伯是位富裕且拥有庞大家族的人。撒旦作为坐探提出，认为应当考验约伯。不久，他遭受了丧失财富、子女、乃至个人健康等可怕的厄运。他的三位朋友前来安慰他；他和三位友人辩论，并和上帝对谈。约伯始终自称无辜，是无端遭难，自信忠诚公义，他与上帝的对话结束了这次紧张的争论，但是并未解决遭难的难题。该书写于西元前6～4世纪。

 Central character of the Book of Job in the Old Testament,
known for his faithfulness to God despite his many afflictions. At the
beginning, Job is a wealthy man with a large family. Satan challenges God to
allow him to take away Job's blessings as a test of his faith. Soon Job is
desolate, covered with boils, his wealth gone and his family dead. Three friends
arrive to comfort him; he disputes with them, denying he has done anything to
deserve this misery but maintaining his faith in God. At the end, in a
confrontation with God, the power and mystery of the deity are memorably
reasserted, but the problem of why the innocent suffer is left unresolved. The
book dates from the 6th-4th century BC.

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