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“The Old Testament book about Job is one of the supreme offerings of the human mind to the living God and one of the best gifts of God to men,” writes Francis Andersen. “The task of understanding it is as rewarding as it is strenuous.… One is constantly amazed at its audacious theology and at the magnitude of its intellectual achievement. Job is a prodigious book in the vast range of its ideas,...

in northern Transjordan. Job could have been within reach of both if he lived east of Galilee. Three companies. Although the stratagem of a three-pronged attack is used several times in Scripture, the circumstances vary considerably. If Gideon’s tactics were similar (Judg. 7:16), the aim would be to drive the animals in a desired direction. 18. The repetitions used in the four reports support the reading of ‘ôd, yet, not MT ‘ad in this verse. 19. The great wind must have been a whirlwind of some
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