By Mike Dawson
Retired Baptist pastor
Focal Passage: Job 1:8-22
“Poor as Job’s turkey” is an expression from my boyhood. But the Bible doesn’t say Job ever had a turkey! One thing is certain: if there was one, it would’ve been lost with all Job’s animals, children and possessions. So maybe the expression should simply be “Poor Job!”
JOB THE BOOK is one of the five “Poetry” books in the Bible (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon). Poetry doesn’t mean these books have lines that rhyme; it means they have a writing style different from the prose of other O.T. books.
Job is apparently a very ancient book; several things appearing often in the Bible story — yet nowhere in Job — would indicate this. Therefore many ‘chronological’ Bibles place Job right after Genesis. [Read more…]