The Bible In Paintings: JOB STILL HAS FRIENDS

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

JOB STILL HAS
FRIENDS

J O B
CHAPTER 2

When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Job and His Friends"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Job and His Friends"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Job Lying in a Heap of Refuse"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Job et ses Trois Amis"

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JEAN BOURDICHON
"Job on His Manure Pile"

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MATTIA PRETI
"Job Visited by Friends"

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MATTIA PRETI
"Job in Manure"

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JAN SNELLINCK
"Job on the Dung Hill"

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GEORGES-AUGUSTE LAVERGNE
"Job et ses Amis"

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EBERHARD VON WÄCHTER
"Hiob und seine Freunde"

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ILYA REPIN
"Job and His Friends"

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JOSEP VERGARA
"Job and His Friends"

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GERARD SEGHERS
"The Patient Job"

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"Job Consolé par ses Amis"

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THOMAS ROWLANDSON
"Job and His Comforters"

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REMBRANDT
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LUCA GIORDANO
"Job and His Comforters"

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KRISTIAN ZAHRTMANN
"Job and His Friends"

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J O B
JOB – GOD PERMITS TRAGEDY AND CALAMITY
JOB SUFFERS AND SUFFERS AND SUFFERS
JOB STILL HAS FRIENDS
FRIENDS ACCUSE, JOB DEFENDS – GOD DECIDES
SONG OF SONGS
SONG OF SONGS—ARTISTIC ANNOTATIONS

[Red Badger]

Where is Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite ?......................

[Hebrews 11:6]

Tomorrow, my impatient friend. He was not one of Job’s three friends who sat with him and commiserated for a week, which is today’s subject.

[Red Badger]

He was there ...

4 Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.

5 But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.

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Tomorrow.

[etabeta]

Some fine works here. #6; #10 by the great Bourdichon, beautiful miniature from the Book of Hours of Anne de Bretagne. #16 by Repin and #23. Of course, the stained glass window takes the price for visual beauty.

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and a happy Friday to all believers.

These are all good choices; like this one with an unusual perspective (23)

Love your two by Dore; (4 & 5) In your research, have you found many artists which show the same scene, but maybe minutes apart?

Thank you Dan !!

[Hebrews 11:6]

You do know how to pick them, Alba.

[Jim W N]

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

[Bob434]

I especially liked 10. The look is a bit like the old icon art.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Several, if not "many", artists take repeated swings--perhaps the artist's equivalent of the golfer's Mulligan. When I encounter them, typically I place them consecutively, as I did here with Dorés'.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Yes. God will adjudicate.

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That one is striking. I love its blue.

[BenLurkin]

bump to the top

[Hebrews 11:6]

Bye-bye, Bumpin’ Ben.

[BenLurkin]

Hello!

[Hebrews 11:6]

You’re the best, Ben—my only bumper. Best Ben the Bumper Man.

[null and void]

Sometimes just being there suffices.

[Hebrews 11:6]

A good beginning, to be sure.