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The book of Job has been highly spoken of by many, both inside the Christian church and out. Thomas Carlyle, the nineteenth-century man of letters, wrote of it, “I call it, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.… There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.” Martin Luther described it as “magnificent and...

But there is also something else to note. It is that Jehovah six times identifies Job as ‘my servant Job’. This is done twice in the Prologue and four times in the Epilogue (see 1:8; 2:3; 42:7–8), but more significant than the number of occurrences of this description is their distribution in the narrative, their place in the book. Job is not described in this way in the opening verses of the book, or the concluding ones—that is, before he attracts the attention of Satan or after he is restored by
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