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The holy righteous Job, by birth, came from the tribe of Abraham, he lived in Arabia, - his place of residence was the land of Khus, which was inhabited by the descendants of Utz, the nephew of Abraham, the son - the firstborn of Nahor, the brother of Abraham (Gen. 22: 20-21). Job was a man of truth (Job. 6:24-30; 27:2-4), - he was distinguished by impeccable behavior, justice with benevolence to all and charity, and most of all, God-fearing, observing the innocence of his heart and moving away from everything evil, not only in their deeds, but also in their inner thoughts. He had seven sons and three daughters. He was also famous in his country for wealth: he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pairs of oxen, five hundred donkeys and many servants; he took a lively and active part in the lives of his fellow tribesmen and had a great influence on public affairs, for throughout the East he was in great honor for his nobility and honesty (Job. 30: 5-10; cf. 1-3). The sons of Job, although each lived separately, in his own tent - house, but nurtured such strong mutual love and lived in such harmony with each other that they never allowed themselves to eat and drink separately, apart from their kindred community. Every day, in turn, they made feasts at their place and spent time in a brotherly circle, together with their sisters, among innocent amusements, free from all excesses, alien to drunkenness and outrages. Even their good and righteous father would not have allowed gatherings of the unprincipled. But since the feasts of Job's children were an expression of their brotherly love and quiet good manners, the righteous husband not only did not forbid them, but even encouraged them, consoling himself with family peace. Each time, after seven days, at the end of regular fraternal meetings, Job invited his children to carefully, in sincere conscience, check their behavior - did any of them sin against God in word or thought, for he was very afraid of God, but was afraid not the fear of a servant, but the fear of filial love, and carefully watched both himself and his house, so that nothing happened to them that angered the Lord God. However, the God-fearing righteous man was not limited only to observing his household and admonishing them to lead a blameless life, so that none of them even sinned in their thoughts before their Creator - but every time the circle of feasting days ended, Job, in the presence of all family, in the early morning he offered burnt offerings according to the number of all his children and one calf for the sin of their souls, for, he said, maybe my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts, so did Job in all such deliberate days (Job. 1:5).

At one time, when in heaven the Angels of God, the guardians of the human race, gathered before the throne of the Almighty God to intercede before Him with their intercession for the people and bring to Him human prayers for all kinds of vital needs, the devil came between them, the slanderers and tempter of the human race. Satan, cast down from heaven, by the permission of God appeared there, among the Angels, without changing his fallen nature, not out of good will to intercede for the good, but in order to vomit his anger and blaspheme the good. Satanic pride in its inner blindness never reconciles itself with the truth, does not see a joyful world in humility and submissive devotion to the will of the All-good God, it boldly re-evaluates the existing, according to its gloomy look and into the luminous area of Divine life alien to it, boldly measuring everything by the measure of its own. self-conceit!

And the Lord said to Satan, who appeared with the angels:

Where did you come from?

Satan replied:

I have walked the earth and traveled all over it.

The Lord said to him:

Have you turned your attention to My servant Job? You cannot find another person on earth who, like him, would be so blameless, just, God-fearing, alien to any vice!

To this Satan answered the Lord:

Is Job God-fearing for nothing? Are you protecting him? Didn't You fence around his house and everything that he has? You blessed the works of his hands, and you multiplied his herds and spread them over the earth. But stretch out Your hand and touch everything that he has, take it away from him, then you will see if he will bless You?

Then the Lord said to Satan:

Everything that he has, I give into your hands, do as you will, but do not touch him.

Satan departed from the presence of the Lord (Job 1:6-12). There was a day on which the sons and daughters of Job feasted in the house of their elder brother. And then a messenger came to Job and said:

Your oxen in the field were plowed in pairs under a yoke, and the donkeys were grazing near them, suddenly the Sabeans attacked and drove them away, and killed the servants, only I escaped and ran to inform you.

While this one was speaking, another messenger came to Job and said:

Fire fell from heaven and burned all the small cattle and shepherds, I escaped alone and came to tell you.

This one had not yet finished his speech, a new messenger comes and informs:

The Chaldeans came up and, dividing into three groups, surrounded the camels and drove them away, and killed the servants, I alone escaped and came to tell you.

While this one was speaking, another messenger comes and says to Job:

Your sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their elder brother, suddenly a terrible whirlwind rushed out of the desert, grabbed the house from four corners and brought it down on your children, all died; I alone escaped and came to inform you.

Having listened to these terrible news one after another, Job got up, as a sign of his severe grief, tore his outer garment, cut off his head, fell to the ground and, bowing before the Lord, said:

Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I will return to the womb of mother earth. The Lord gave, the Lord took! - as He pleases, so it happened, may the name of the Lord be blessed!

So in all this Job did not sin against God with one foolish word (Job 1:13-22).

There was a day when the Angels of God again appeared before the Lord, and Satan came again between them.

And the Lord said to Satan:

Where did you come from?

Satan replied:

I was on the ground and went around it all.

The Lord said to him:

Have you turned your attention to My servant Job? There is no person on earth who would be like him: he is so kind, truthful and pious, he is so far from everything evil! And with the misfortunes that befell him, he still remains firm in his integrity, and you provoked Me against him in order to destroy him innocently!

And Satan answered the Lord and said:

Skin for skin, and for his life a man will give everything he has - that is: in someone else's skin a person can suffer, in someone else's skin the blows are not so sensitive, even the removal of this skin is tolerable, not painful for him, and he can remain calm, but try to touch his own body, stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh and see if he will bless you?

Then the Lord said to Satan:

Here it is in your hand. I allow you to do with him whatever you want, just save his soul - do not encroach on the basis of his being, free will (Job.2: 1-6).

Satan departed from the presence of the Lord and struck Job's whole body with a terrible leprosy from the soles of his feet to the very crown of his head. The sufferer had to move out of the midst of living people, since he was intolerant among them due to the contagiousness of the disease that had seized him. His body was covered with disgusting, stinking scabs, a burning inner fire spread over all joints, sitting, outside the village, in the ashes, Job scraped his festering wounds with a fragment of a crock. All his neighbors and acquaintances moved away, left him. Even his wife lost compassion for him.

After a long time, in a state of despair, she once said to Job: “How long will you endure? - Here, I will wait a little more in the hope of my salvation, for your memory, sons and daughters, the diseases of my womb and the labors that I worked in vain have perished from the earth. You yourself sit in the stench of worms, spending the night without a cover, while I wander and serve, move from place to place, from house to house, waiting for the sun to set in order to calm down from my labors and illnesses that now depress me. persevere, do not unswervingly defend your integrity, but say a certain word to God, blaspheme Him and die - in death you will find liberation from your suffering, it will also save me from torment.

So simply and naturally, apparently even satisfactorily, Job's wife resolved for him and for herself the question of life, without extending beyond the earthly understanding of its meaning and purpose, at the suggestion of Satan - "skin for skin." Exhausted and morally tired, she was ready to extinguish the last torch of true life: "blame God and die."

Not so, however, did the sufferer himself, Job, reason about his condition, looking at his human nature not from the point of view of narrow selfishness. Looking at his wife with regret, he said to her:

Why are you talking like one of those crazy wives? If we accepted the good from God, then are we really intolerant of the evil - we will not accept!

And this time, therefore, Job did not sin against God - his mouth did not utter anything blasphemous against God (Job 2:7-10).

The rumor about the misfortune that befell Job spread throughout the surrounding countries. His three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Sabbathite, and Zophar the Naamite, aware of his misfortune, gathered together to go and comfort the sufferer, sharing his grief. But, approaching him and not recognizing him, because his face was a continuous purulent scab, they still screamed and sobbed from afar from horror, each tore his outer clothes and in great sorrow threw dust up over their heads. They then spent seven days and seven nights sitting on the ground opposite their friend and not saying a single word, for they saw that his suffering was very great and did not find means to comfort him in such a state (Job 2:11-13). This lingering silence was broken by Job himself. He was the first to open his mouth: he cursed the day of his birth and expressed deep sorrow about why he was given to see the light, which is now covered with darkness for him? Why was life given to him when it is a joyless torment for him?

- The terrible thing, which I was terrified of, then befell me, - said the sufferer, - and the terrible thing, which I was afraid of, then came to me. I have no peace, no rest, no joy! (Job 3:1-26).

Then his friends also entered into a conversation with him, although with their reasoning, with which they wanted to console him, they only poisoned his tormented heart even more (Job. 21:34; 16:2 ff.). According to their sincere conviction, according to their belief that the Just God rewards the good and punishes the evil, they considered it indisputable and undeniable that if anyone is subjected to misfortune, he is a sinner, and the greater this misfortune, the darker his sinful state. Therefore, they thought about Job that he had some secret sins, which he knew how to skillfully hide (Job. 32 - 33, etc.) from people and for which the All-Seeing God punishes their friend. This they made the sufferer feel from the very beginning of their conversations, and then, in the continuation of their long reasoning, they urged him to confess and repent of his crimes. Job, in the consciousness of his integrity, with all the apparently convincing speeches, considered himself inwardly far from recognizing their reasoning as fair (Job.27:1-7; 10:17); with all the strength of innocence he defended his good name.

How long will you torment my soul and torment me with your words? Behold, you have shamed me ten times already, and do not be ashamed to torment me! Wretched comforters! - will there be an end to your windy words? (Job 19:2-3; 16:2).

Job explained to his friends and assured them that he did not suffer for sins, but that God, in His will, incomprehensible to man, sends a hard life to one and a happy life to another. Job's friends, who believed that God deals with people according to the same laws of retribution, according to which he pronounces His judgment and human justice, were not convinced by his justifying words, although they stopped their denunciations directed against him and stopped responding to his words (Job. 32:1-15). At this time, a certain Elihu, the son of Barahiel, from the tribe of Ramov, a Vuzite, took an ardent part in the general conversation, young in years; with fiery boldness he took up arms against the venerable sufferer "because he justified himself, his innocence, more than God" (Job. 32:2ff.). Giving justice to the Creator, which is inaccessible to man, this interlocutor also saw the reason for Job's suffering in his depravity, even if it was not noticeable to human eyes.

God is mighty and does not despise a strong heart with a fortress. He does not support the wicked and does not turn away His eyes from the righteous, but you, - said Elihu to Job, - you are full of judgments of the wicked, for, according to your judgment, the punishment sent to you from God is undeserved, "but judgment and condemnation are close," so closely adjoin between you (Job. 36:5-17).

Finally, the sufferer turned with a prayer to God, so that He Himself would testify of his innocence.

Indeed, God appeared to Job in a stormy whirlwind and rebuked him for his intention to demand an account in the affairs of world government. The Almighty pointed out to Job that for a person there is a lot of incomprehensible in the phenomena and creations of even one visible, surrounding nature, and after that - the desire to penetrate the mysteries of God's fate and explain why He treats people this way and not otherwise - such a desire represents already impudent arrogance.

Who is this who darkens Providence with words without meaning? - the Lord asked Job from a stormy whirlwind. Now gird up your loins like a man, and answer: where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? - Tell me if you know. On what are its foundations established, or who laid its cornerstone amid the general rejoicing of the heavenly luminaries and the joyful laudatory exclamations of the sons of God? Have you ever in your life commanded the morning and indicated the place for the dawn? Do you know the statutes of heaven, can you raise your voice to the clouds, can you send lightning? - Adorn yourself with majesty and glory, clothe yourself in splendor and splendor, pour out the fury of your anger, look at everything proud and arrogant and humble it, crush the strong wicked in their places. Then I also acknowledge that your right hand is strong to protect you. Competing with the Almighty, convicting God, let him answer.

And Job answered the Lord and said:

I know that You can do everything and that Your intention is unchanging.

Who is this who darkens providence, understanding nothing?

This is me, talking about what I did not understand - about wonderful things for me, which I did not know. I used to hear about You only out of the corner of my ear, but now my eyes see You, therefore I renounce and repent to dust and ashes, I am insignificant and what will I answer You? - I put my hand on my mouth (Job 38-40).

And it was after that command from the Lord to Job's friends that they turned to him and asked him to offer a sacrifice for them, for only the face of Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I will accept, so as not to reject you because you spoke about Me not so faithfully, as My servant Job (Job. 42:7-9). Friends fulfilled this Lord's command and brought seven bulls and seven rams to Job for sacrifice. Job offered a sacrifice to God and prayed for his friends. God accepted his intercession for them, restored his own bodily health, and gave him twice as much as he had before. The relatives and all former acquaintances of Job, having heard about his healing, came to visit him and confer and rejoice with him, and each of them brought him a gift and a golden ring. The Lord rewarded Job with His blessing: after that, he had fourteen thousand flocks, six thousand camels, a thousand pairs of oxen and a thousand donkeys. Job was born, instead of the dead, and seven sons and three daughters, and in all the earth there were no such beautiful women as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers (Job. 42: 10-15). The Lord did not double the number of Job's children, just as He doubled his shepherd's wealth: this is so that no one would think that his first dead children died completely - no, although they died, they did not die - they will rise on a common resurrection righteous.

Job, after the trials he patiently endured, lived one hundred and forty years (he lived on earth two hundred and forty-eight years in total), and he saw his offspring up to the fourth generation, he died full of days in extreme old age (Job. 42: 16-17); now he lives a life that does not grow old and is not painful in the kingdom of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity of the glorious God, for even among the misfortunes he suffered on earth, he already saw how Abraham, the great day of the Lord, saw him and rejoiced ( John 8:56).

I know, - he said, stricken with a foul ulcer, - I know that my Redeemer lives and He will raise from the dust on the last day my decaying skin, and I will see God in my flesh. I will see Him myself; my eyes, not the eyes of another, will see Him. This expectation melts my heart in my chest! (Job 19:25-27)

Righteous Job confessed this before his friends, instilling in them "to fear" not bodily suffering and deprivation of earthly blessings, but "the sword of the Lord", the wrath of the Almighty, "Which is the avenger of unrighteousness."

Know that there is a court (Job.19:29), - he broadcasts in instruction to us, - a court, in which only those who have true wisdom - the fear of the Lord and - true mind - removal from evil (Job.28:28) will be justified.

JOB THE LONG-SUFFERING

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Job the Long-suffering (c. 2000-1500 BC), righteous saint.

The holy righteous Job lived in Northern Arabia, in the country of Avsitidia, in the land of Uts. His life and suffering are described in the Bible, in the Book of Job. It is believed that Job was the nephew of Abraham; was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor.

Job was a God-fearing and pious man. With all his soul he was devoted to the Lord God and in everything acted according to His will, moving away from all evil not only in deeds, but also in thoughts. The Lord blessed his earthly existence and endowed the righteous Job with great wealth: he had a lot of cattle and all sorts of property. The seven sons of the righteous Job and three daughters were friendly with each other and gathered for a common meal all together in turn at each of them. Every seven days, the righteous Job offered sacrifices to God for his children, saying: “Perhaps one of them has sinned or blasphemed God in his heart.” For his justice and honesty, Saint Job was held in great esteem by his fellow citizens and had a great influence on public affairs.

Once, when the Holy Angels appeared before the Throne of God, Satan appeared among them. The Lord God asked Satan if he had seen His servant Job, a righteous man and free from all vice. Satan boldly answered that it was not for nothing that Job was God-fearing - God protects him and multiplies his wealth, but if misfortunes are sent to him, then he will cease to bless God. Then the Lord, wishing to show Job's patience and faith, said to Satan: "Everything that Job has, I give into your hands, but do not touch him." After that, Job suddenly lost all his wealth, and then all his children. Righteous Job turned to God and said: “Naked I came out of my mother's womb, naked I will return to my mother earth. The Lord gave, the Lord took. May the Name of the Lord be blessed!” And Job did not sin before the Lord God, and did not utter a single foolish word.

When the Angels of God again appeared before the Lord and Satan among them, the devil said that Job was righteous as long as he himself was unharmed. Then the Lord announced: "I allow you to do with him whatever you want, just save his soul." After that, Satan struck the righteous Job with a fierce disease - leprosy, which covered him from head to toe. The sufferer was forced to leave the society of people, sat outside the city on a heap of ashes and scraped his festering wounds with a clay skull. All friends and acquaintances left him. His wife was forced to earn her living by working and wandering from house to house. Not only did she not support her husband in patience, but she thought that God was punishing Job for some secret sins, she wept, murmured against God, reproached her husband, and finally advised the righteous Job to blaspheme God and die. Righteous Job grieved grievously, but even in these sufferings he remained faithful to God. He answered his wife: “You speak like one of the crazy ones. Shall we accept good things from God, and shall we not accept evil?” And the righteous have not sinned in anything before God.

Hearing of Job's misfortunes, his three friends came from afar to share his grief. They believed that Job was punished by God for sins, and they urged the innocent righteous man to repent. The righteous answered that he did not suffer for sins, but that these trials were sent to him by the Lord according to the divine will incomprehensible to man. Friends, however, did not believe and continued to believe that the Lord was dealing with Job according to the law of human retribution, punishing him for his sins. In severe spiritual grief, the righteous Job turned with a prayer to God, asking Him Himself to testify before them of his innocence. Then God revealed Himself in a stormy whirlwind and reproached Job for trying to penetrate with his mind into the mysteries of the universe and the fate of God. The righteous man repented of these thoughts with all his heart and said: “I am worthless, I renounce and repent in dust and ashes.” Then the Lord commanded Job’s friends to turn to him and ask him to offer a sacrifice for them, “for,” the Lord said, “only the face of Job I will accept, so as not to reject you because you spoke about Me not so correctly as My servant Job ". Job offered a sacrifice to God and prayed for his friends, and the Lord accepted his petition, and also restored the righteous Job to health and gave him twice as much as he had before. Instead of dead children, Job had seven sons and three daughters, the most beautiful of which was not on earth. After suffering, Job lived another 140 years (he lived 248 years in total) and saw his offspring up to the fourth generation.

Saint Job represents the Lord Jesus Christ, who descended to earth, suffered for the salvation of people, and then glorified by His glorious Resurrection.

I know, - said the righteous Job, stricken with leprosy, - I know that my Redeemer lives and He will raise my decaying skin from the dust on the last day, and I will see God in my flesh. I will see Him myself, my eyes, not the eyes of another will see Him. This expectation melts my heart in my chest! (Job 19:25-27).

Know that there is a judgment in which only those who have true wisdom - the fear of the Lord and true understanding - the removal from evil, will be justified.

St. John Chrysostom says: There is no human misfortune that this husband, the hardest of all adamant, would not endure, who suddenly experienced hunger, and poverty, and illness, and the loss of children, and deprivation of wealth, and then, having experienced deceit from his wife, insults from friends , attacks from slaves, in everything turned out to be harder than any stone, and, moreover, to the Law and Grace.

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Life of the great-Ved-no-go Job

The Holy Righteous Job lived 2000-1500 years before the Birth of Christ, in North Arabia, in the country of Av-si-ti-di-ska, in land Uts. The life and suffering of his description in the Bible (Book of Job). There is an opinion that Job came to the tribe Av-ra-amu: he was the son of the brother Av-ra-am - Na-ho-ra. Job was a man of god-bo-bo-yaz-n-ny and b-go-che-sti-vym. With all his soul, he was given over to the Lord according to God, and in everything he acted in accordance with His will, moving away from all evil, not only ko in de-lah, but also in thought-lyakh. The Lord blessed his earthly existence and na-de-lil the great-veda-no-th Job with great wealth: he had lo a lot of livestock and all-to-go-name. Seven sons-no-vey of the great-ved-no-th Job and three before-che-ri were friendly between each other and so-bi-ra-lied on a common tra-pe-zu all together in turn, but for each of them. Every seven days, the righteous Job brought strength for his children of the sacrifice to God, saying: "Maybe one of them is with the Greek sewed or ho-lil God in his heart. For his justice and honesty, St. Job was in a great way among his fellow citizens and had a great influence on the community stvenny de la.

Once upon a time, when the Holy An-ge-ly was before the Pre-table of God, he appeared between them and sa-ta- on the. The Lord God asked sa-ta-nu if he had seen His servant Job, the husband of the right-handed and a stranger to everyone ka. Sa-ta-na boldly answered that it was not for nothing that bo-go-bo-yaz-nen Job - God saves him and multiplies his wealth, but if misfortune is sent to him, then he will cease to bless God. Then the Lord, wanting to show Job's patience and faith, said to Satan: "Everything that Job has, I give into your hands , only sa-mo-go don’t ka-sai-sya." After this, Job suddenly lost all his riches, and then all his children. Righteous Job turned to God and said: “I came out of the womb of my ma-te-ri, I am going to my mother earth. The Lord gave, the Lord took away. May the Name of the Lord be blessed!" And Job did not sin before the Lord God, and did not utter a single non-zoom-no-th word.

When the An-ge-ly of God again stood before the Lord-in-the-house, and among them Sa-ta-na, the devil said that Job was right -den, for the time being, we are unharmed. Then the Lord said: "I will let you do whatever you want with him, just save his soul." After this-th-sa-ta-na-ra-zil of the great-ved-no-th Job of the lu-that bo-lez-nyu - pro-ka-zoi, someone-paradise covered him from feet to head-lo-you. Stra-da-letz was in need of you-se-pour-sing out of the society of people, sat outside the city on a pile of ashes and clay re-pom-lealed his purulent wounds. All friends and acquaintances left him. But, on his need-de-na, to-la-to-be-to-be about-pi-ta-nie, working and ski-ta-ing from house to house. She not only did not support her husband in patience, but she thought that God some secret sins, pla-ka-la, rop-ta-la on God, reproach-rya-la and husband and on-to-net in-so-ve -to-va-la great-ved-no-mu Job, pour God and die. Righteous Job is grievously white, but even in these sufferings he remained faithful to God. He replied to his wife: “You speak like one of the insane. dem mother?" And the righteous did not co-sin in anything before God.

Hearing about the misfortunes of Job, three of his friends came from yes-le-ka to him to de-pour his grief. They considered that Job was on-ka-zan by God for sins, and were convinced that they were not-wine-but-of-nothing right-know-no-ka-ka-ya -sya. The great-ved-nik answered that he suffers not for sins, but that these trials were sent to him from the Lord-yes, out of innocence -zhy-mine for che-lo-ve-ka Divine in-le. Friends, however, don’t believe and continue to think that the Lord is stepping with Job for the sake of -ve-che-th voz-mez-diya, on-ka-zy-vaya him for committed sins. In heavy spiritual sorrow, the great-vedied Job turned with a prayer to God, asking His Sa-mo-go for-wi-de -tel-stvo-vat before them his innocence. Then God revealed Himself in a stormy whirlwind and reproached Job for trying to penetrate with his mind into the secrets of the world -buildings and su-deb of God-zhi-them. The great-wit-nick with all his heart was ras-ka-yal-sya in these thoughts and said: I am in dust and ashes." Then the Lord commanded the friends of Job to turn to him and ask him to bring a sacrifice for them, "for," said the Lord , - I will only accept the face of Job, so as not to reject you because you speak about Me not as true as My servant Job. Job offered a sacrifice to God and prayed for his friends, and the Lord accepted his move, and also returned the right Veda-no-mu Job health and gave him twice as much of what he had before. Instead of a hundred dead children, Job gave birth to seven sons-no-wei and three do-che-ri, there were no more beautiful ones on earth. After the re-re-not-sun-suffering, Job lived another 140 years (he lived 248 years after all) and saw his offspring until four -cities.

Holy Job pro-ob-ra-zu-et the Lord, yes, Jesus-sa Christ, descended to earth, in-stra-give-she-ra-di spa -se-niya people, and then pro-glorify-viv-she-go-sya glorious His Resurrection-cre-se-ni-em.

"I know, - said the great-vedied Job, the re-wife pro-ka-zoy, - I know that my Is-ku-pi-tel is alive, and He rises wit from the ashes on the last day, ras-pa-da-yu-shchu-yu-sya my skin, and I will see God in my flesh. eyes, not the eyes of another will see Him. ().

"Know that there is a court, on which it is justified-yes-it-is-only having-th-ing-true-true-wisdom - the fear of the Lord-by-day and is- tin-ny ra-zoom - deletion from evil.

The saint says: “There is no misfortune of a man-lo-ve-che-th, someone-ro-go would not have been carried by this husband, who was all- who-go hell-man-ta, was-py-tav-shy suddenly and hunger, and poverty, and sickness, and in-te-ryu de-tey, and deprivation riches, and then, having tried co-bar-ing from the wife, insult-le-ning from friends, on-pa-de-ning from slaves, in everything the eye-hall is solid-all-to-the-th-stone, and, moreover, to Za-ko-na and Bla-go-da-ti.

See also: "" in from-lo-same-nii svt. Di-mit-ria Rostov-sko-go.

Prayers

Troparion to Righteous Job the Long-suffering, tone 1

Seeing the wealth of the virtues of Joblich, / steal your righteous enemies, / and, having tore apart the pillar of the body, / did not steal the treasure of the spirit, / for you will find armed a blameless soul, / less and, exposing, captivating, / forewarning me before the end, / / forewarning me before the end, / / flattering me, save me, and save me.

Translation: Seeing the wealth of Job, the enemy of the righteous (the devil) planned to steal them, but, tearing apart the bodily foundation, he did not steal the treasures of the spirit, because he met the armed soul of the righteous. But I (the enemy) stripped and robbed, but prevent my end and deliver me, Savior, from and save me.

John troparion to the righteous Job the Long-suffering, tone 2

The memory of Your righteous Job, Lord, is celebrating, / we pray to Thee: / deliver us from the slanders and networks of the evil devil / / and save our souls, like a Lover of mankind.

Translation: The memory of Your righteous Job, Lord, celebrating, therefore we pray to You: deliver us from the slander and networks of the evil devil and save our souls, as a Lover of mankind.

Kontakion to Righteous Job the Long-suffering, Tone 8

As true and righteous, Godly and blameless, / sanctified, appear all-glorious, God's true saint, / enlightened the world in your patience, patient and kindest. / / All the same, God-wise, we sing your memory.

Translation: As faithful and righteous, Godly and blameless, you appeared sanctified, glorified by all, the true saint of God, you enlightened the world with your patience, patient and valiant. Therefore, we all, God-wise, sing your memory.

Prayer to Righteous Job the Long-suffering

Oh, great righteous man, Job the Long-suffering, shining with his pure life and holy closeness to God. You lived on earth before Moses and Christ, all the commandments of God, carrying them in your heart, you fulfilled. The mysteries revealed to the world through Christ and His Holy Apostles, having comprehended with their deep revelations, you were granted to be a partaker of the inspirations of the Holy Spirit. All the intrigues of the devil, in the special temptations sent to you from the Lord, having overcome with your true humility, the image of malice and long-suffering of the whole universe appeared to you. Great love for God and for all people in your immeasurable sorrows, preserving, with a pure heart behind the tomb of unity with the Lord, you joyfully expected. Now you are in the village of the righteous and stand before the Throne of God. Hear us sinners and indecent, before your holy icon coming and earnestly resorting to your intercession. Moths of the man of God, yes to the faith of good, inappropriate and unreality will approve us, from all the evil enemy visible and invisible protects, in the grief and temptations to give us a fortress, in the hearts of our memory mortals will save, in long-suffering and britally strengthened give a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ and in our resurrected flesh contemplate the Triune God and sing His glory with all the saints forever and ever. Amen.

Canons and Akathists

Kondak 1

To the great Old Testament righteous one chosen by the Lord, the fifth son of Esau from Abraham, Job the Long-suffering, let us sing a laudable song: as if with his wondrous virtues and with all his life he appeared as a teacher of the whole universe. But you, righteous Job, accept this praise, brought to you with love, warm our hearts with the desire to imitate your feat, but with one accord we call you:

Ikos 1

Angels of God on the day of a certain appearance of the Lord, praising Him. The devil also came with them. This last one, questioned by the Lord about Job, began to slander the righteous man, as he honors the Lord of the earth for the sake of blessings, God reward him with an image. But we, bitterly remembering the evil devilish slander against the great righteous man, we praise Job like this:

Rejoice, Job, as the Lord himself named you a person who is blameless and pious.

Rejoice, thou who didst receive all earthly blessings from the Lord.

Rejoice, having many servants and counting your flocks in thousands.

Rejoice, having brought up the sons and daughters given to you by the Lord in great piety.

Rejoice, for you showed great care for your children.

Rejoice, for you did not cling to anything from earthly goods with your heart.

Rejoice, for with your wisdom you stood high above all.

Rejoice, for you were a king among the brave.

Rejoice, for thou art the noblest of those who exist from the rising of the sun.

Rejoice, all-glorious, true saint of God.

Rejoice, thou who did great good deeds.

Rejoice, enlightening world in your patience.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 2

Knowing the unshakable faith and great devotion to the will of God of his servant, the Lord gave the power to the devil to take away all the blessings of the earth from Job and destroy his children. We, marveling at this special will of God, cry out to the All-Wise God: Alleluia!

Ikos 2

With his evil mind, the devil was overjoyed, having received such a will of God. One day, when all the children of Jobl unanimously enjoy a meal in the house of their elder brother, the devil sent the doers of his evil wills, and destroyed all the property of Joble, and put ten of his children to death. A storm of inadvertent temptations to shake this wondrous pillar, and from his mouth came out the wise words of Sis: Nag I died from my mother's womb, naked and I will depart there: The Lord has given, the Lord has been taken away: as the Lord has pleased, so be it. May the Name of the Lord be blessed forever! Honoring such devotion to the will of God of the righteous, we, in praise of Job, say:

Rejoice, Job, sinning nothing before the Lord.

Rejoice, Long-suffering, and do not give the mouth of your madness to God.

Rejoice, for the doors of your house are open to everyone who passes by.

Rejoice, for the stranger did not remain outside your house.

Rejoice, for thou hast not despised the widow's tearful eye.

Rejoice, thou who art the blind, thou hast been the leg of the lame.

Rejoice, for you never ate your bread alone, but you generously gave it to orphans.

Rejoice, for all the infirmities that require what, all of you joyfully received the essence.

Rejoice, for you wept for every weak one.

Rejoice, as if seeing a husband in sorrow, you sighed heavily.

Rejoice, quick helper in every need and sorrow.

Rejoice, vigilant intercessor seeking your intercession.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 3

Relying on his strength, Satan again slanders Job and says to God: Send Your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, if not in Your face bless? And again, the Lord betrays the wondrous Job in the hands of the lawless one. But the sower of evil, having come out from the presence of the Lord, maliciously strike Job with fierce pus from his feet even to his head. And the righteous man sits outside the city on pus, he takes a piece of wood, and sharpens his pus. But we, blessing God, having allowed a fierce leprosy to be brought upon the blameless Job, glorification for the sake of His servant, cry to the Lord: Alleluia!

Ikos 3

Truly patience is more than human name Long-suffering Job. The disease in the leper body is multiplying. The wife of the righteous, seeing the suffering of her husband and being taught by Satan, gave advice to Job: Rtsy a certain verb to the Lord and die. And he, having looked up, said to her: As if one from mad women, did you speak? If the good hand of the Lord is received, shall we not endure the evil ones? In all these that happened to him, in no way did Job sin with the mouth before God and not give madness to God. From where can anyone find verbs that glorify the righteous in new fashion? Both of us, with love for Job, we conquer, and with the same words we glorify the Long-suffering Sitse:

Rejoice, for your bones are tumultuous at night and your sinews come to relaxation.

Rejoice, for your skin is greatly darkened.

Rejoice, as the compositions of your body are burned from pus.

Rejoice, for you were filled with sickness from evening to morning.

Rejoice, for your body is in the pus of worms.

Rejoice, for your brasna is full of stench.

Rejoice, for I loathe you and rise up against you who saw you.

Rejoice, Job, unyielding by all the pretense of the evil one.

Rejoice, devoted to the Lord to death.

Rejoice, foolish words of your wife revealing.

Rejoice, virtuous pillar, in your grave illnesses, in no way indulge in despondency.

Rejoice, thou who didst bless God in thy sorrows.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 4

Many great perplexities are found upon the righteous when three of his friends come to him. These from afar looked at the leper, not knowing him, and crying out with a great voice, crying, tore their garments and sprinkled dust on their heads: I sat with him seven days and seven nights, and no one from them spoke to him a word of consolation. In vain such friends of yours, with all your heart rush the innocent sufferer to God, trusting in Him alone and crying out to Him: Alleluia!

Ikos 4

Hearing the great voice and the cry of your friends, you understood, Long-suffering, as if they would not give you consolation. In the grief of the soul, before the face of the Lord, thou opened thy mouth, Job, began to speak, as if it were better for you not to be born than to live except nearness to God. Compassionate to the righteous in his inexpressible grief, in praise of his great devotion to the Lord, with the verb to Job:

Rejoice, great Old Testament righteous one, placing all your blessedness in closeness to God.

Rejoice, having experienced the fear of God rejected by you in sent down temptations.

Rejoice, preferring death to life left to you by God.

Rejoice, longing for the consolation of God, your grief is firmly endured.

Rejoice, for thou hast prophesied of an endless afterlife.

Rejoice, for in death you laid eternal rest.

Rejoice, earthly sorrows as a preparation for the future life of the understanding.

Rejoice, perspicacious seer of eternal joys.

Rejoice, crying out to the Lord for immortal bliss.

Rejoice, having seen well with the Lord in earthly blessings.

Rejoice, for thou didst regard the beauty of the visible sky without God as nothing.

Rejoice, for you were expecting a new heaven and a new earth with all your soul.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 5

The wholehearted devotion of the righteous man to the Lord, his three friends in the words of Joblich did not understand, but I saw his murmuring against God: for this sake, inspire Job to God to turn with prayer and repentance for his sins. The innocent sufferer for a single prayer to God, may the Lord give him the power of his innocent suffering to comprehend. To God, the source of wisdom and reason, the righteous cry out from his contrite heart: Alleluia!

Ikos 5

Although you point out the inscrutable ways of the Lord, for the understanding of which a man should beg God, you, your friends, Job, instructed you to live in the will of God. We, who honor the wise words of the suffering righteous, bring him this praise:

Rejoice, for your mouth has not uttered lies against God.

Rejoice, wisely revealing the lies of your friends.

Rejoice, O humble wise prophet of the incomprehensibility of God's providence.

Rejoice, thou who desirest to clarify the life of the righteous in the Old Testament.

Rejoice, having been immersed by nature in every filth you have seen.

Rejoice, for you saw the need for an intercessor between God and people with your pious heart.

Rejoice, thirsting for the love of the Father from God.

Rejoice, as you tearfully implored the Lord, that He would not remove His fear from you.

Rejoice, for thou didst honor thy temptations sent from God.

Rejoice, for you thought that the coming death was your deliverer from earthly sorrows.

Rejoice, wise interpreter of the Divine ways.

Rejoice, good leader to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 6

The preacher of the incomprehensibility of the depths of God, God's wisdom and reason appeared to you, Long-suffering, when you reproved your hypocritical friends, who thought of the ways of the wisdom of God who understands. Humbly seeing for yourself the weak providence of God, lead the righteous to stand before God for judgment and ask Him for special mercy, so that the Lord would take away His formidable hand and not terrify him with His fear. Carrying in his heart a humble prayer to the Lord, with tenderness Job to the One Judge and God cry out: Alleluia!

Ikos 6

Ascension into your soul, righteous, blessed ray of God, when in your great sorrow you expected the approach to death, and you prepared for the irrevocable procession into the unknown land of darkness and eternal darkness. Loving the Lord with all your soul, at the call of God, you were ready to go to the afterlife, Job, but you did not reject the hopes of a new life in closeness to God in your heart. Rejoicing at such a bright aspiration of the suffering righteous, with love we sing to him:

Rejoice, humble, God-wise, innocent sufferer.

Rejoice, contemplating the nearness of death unceasingly.

Rejoice, day and hour of the death of a person in the wise will of God.

Rejoice, unfeigned servant of Christ.

Rejoice, for thou hast desired to see God with a pure heart.

Rejoice, for in your deep devotion to the Lord you boldly asked Him.

Rejoice, for you have not departed from your own truth.

Rejoice, for you have sought true wisdom from God.

Rejoice, unrighteous named physicians among your friends.

Rejoice, having seen their flattery before God in their words.

Rejoice, keeping your soul pure and blameless.

Rejoice, fearlessly before the Lord at the judgment stand the voluptuous.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 7

Those who want to understand true wisdom in your judgments, help us, servant of God. Rebuking your false friends, you pointed out to them, Job, that the blessings of the earth and the sorrows of men are in the hands of God. The Lord distributes them wisely: hence the righteous suffers the worst and the wicked prospers. A man of dust cannot lead the secrets of the world government of God, but for everything he must give thanks to the Lord and, praising Him, sing to Him: Alleluia!

Ikos 7

We hear marvelous speeches from the lips of the Old Testament righteous man. The hypocritical friends of his consolation did not give Job to Job, and most of all, they cause new sorrows to his heart. The righteous man only directs his thoughts to the Lord, trusts in the One Intercessor and Impersonal Judge of God, from Him the only consolation of tea. Seeing such a lofty aspiration of the Long-suffering One, we magnify him:

Rejoice, wise accuser of hypocrisy.

Rejoice, thou who named thy other evil comforters.

Rejoice, seeing friends nodding their heads over the great sufferings of their friend.

Rejoice, only seeking relief from the Lord for your heart.

Rejoice, only in heaven you saw the True Intercessor for yourself.

Rejoice, for your heart is filled with horrors before God.

Rejoice, for with your pure prayer you approached God.

Rejoice, for you firmly trusted in your truth.

Rejoice, in your humility, conversing with God is unworthy of yourself, honored.

Rejoice, only pray to God your Judge you desire.

Rejoice, testifying of your innocence before the whole world.

Rejoice, for your eye is filled with blessed tears.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 8

It is strange for us, the sons of the New Testament, redeemed by the blood of the Son of God and those who have the Gospel of Christ, to hear the bold words of the Old Testament righteous. The great secrets of the afterlife are not known to the long-suffering one, but Job, praying with his devoted heart to God, may the Witness in heaven and the intercessor of such mysteries illuminate him with knowledge. The eye of the Long-suffering One tears down to the Lord and the righteous man sings to God with tenderness: Alleluia!

Ikos 8

Tea of the approach of his death, enduring heavy suffering on earth, in his grace-filled illuminations he says the righteous, as if there is no relief in sorrows on earth, may the Lord hide him in the underworld until the time. When the wrath of God ceases, the sins and iniquities of the people are covered, then the Lord, by His mercy, will give the righteous to be close to Him. We, such a bright hope of the afflicted, see, in special praise to him, we say to him:

Rejoice, clairvoyant God-wise and enlightened.

Rejoice, holy and great sufferer.

Rejoice, thou who suffered in the flesh and freed from sin.

Rejoice, conquering spirit of despondency with love for the Lord.

Rejoice, for you were filled with bright hopes of the future life.

Rejoice, for with all your soul you believed in the infinite love of God.

Rejoice, thirsty one will take away the secrets of the underworld.

Rejoice, waiting for the mercy of God in the gloomy hellholes.

Rejoice, hope for a bright life beyond the grave is equal to David, Isaiah, Ezekiel and other prophets.

Rejoice, for thou hast become hope on a single path with the great Old Testament righteous.

Rejoice, preaching to all the righteous the joy of a bright existence beyond the grave.

Rejoice, perspicacious confessor of the gospel truths of Christ.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 9

Through all sorts of great temptations and tribulations, thou didst grow spiritually, Job. The Lord delights your soul with special revelations, O Long-suffering One. Graciously illumined by God, you, the chosen one of God, proclaimed: We, as my Redeemer lives, Even on the last day, this decaying skin of mine will resurrect from the dust, but in my flesh I will see God. Perceiving with our hearts this faith in the resurrection of the flesh, we, by such revelations of the righteous, we cry out to God: Alleluia!

Ikos 9

Vetia is truly unrighteous, appearing to the verbosity of your friends, Job. These lies are consolations that you desired, your suffering friend, reproach, saying that you did not feed the hungry, you did not clothe the poor, you offended widows and orphans, and you did not quench the thirst of your neighbors. Oh, the great patience of the great sufferer! Praising such long-suffering and pure virtuous Iovle's life, we sing to him the singalong:

Rejoice, for you humbly endured reproach from your friends.

Rejoice, for thou didst graciously accept the ridicule of small children.

Rejoice, for your servants have forgotten your love for them.

Rejoice, as your wife unreasonably heeds the crafty advice.

Rejoice, as the evil Satan, having tore apart the pillar of the body, will not steal the treasures of your spirit.

Rejoice, great wrestler, overcoming all the intrigues of the enemy.

Rejoice, for thou didst wish to see the One God and Lord on earth.

Rejoice, for you were glorified by your devotion to the Lord.

Rejoice, surprising everyone with the height of your deeds.

Rejoice, enlightenment of the spiritual index.

Rejoice, great consolation to all people.

Rejoice, for salvation has appeared to many in this world through you.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 10

Salvation only from the Lord of tea, and having a bright hope for a renewed life after the grave, Long-suffering Job, who was also a righteous man of the Old Testament, did not dare to be affirmed in his insights, but hesitated in his thoughts and feelings and endured some grief in his soul. We, compassionately in this sorrow and bowing to the Holy will of God, cry out to the Loving and Wise God: Hallelujah!

Ikos 10

A strong wall in devotion to the Lord appeared to the whole world, O Long-suffering One, when you firmly spoke about your purity and the hypocrisy of your friends. Possessing the heart, filled with compassion for the innocently suffering righteous man, with our united lips with tenderness we call him tacos:

Rejoice, great righteous one, in terrible temptations wholly preserving devotion to the Lord.

Rejoice, for you have not seen good consolation from anyone from people.

Rejoice, for deprivation of children and lost wealth did not indulge in despondency.

Rejoice, for you instruct us all to overcome the temptations of the love of money.

Rejoice, for you wisely understood the changes in the heavenly bodies.

Rejoice, for thou hast seen not a single ever-present joy in this world.

Rejoice, thou who didst contemplate joy and truth in the One God.

Rejoice, thou who was vouchsafed to receive the great true revelation from God.

Rejoice, for you overcame the lies of your friends and the reproaches of your neighbors with the strength of your spirit.

Rejoice, for you overcame every wordless lust with the purity of your heart.

Rejoice, in all your bright hopes you are not put to shame in any way.

Rejoice, for thou hast deepened into the mysteries of the underworld by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 11

Let us sing all-suffering singing to the Long-suffering One, who saw his innocence and knew the unredeemed sinfulness of the people. In vain on yourself the right hand of the Divine will, in the providence of God about a man, believing your righteous, good tea of the end. Sharing his indestructible luminous faith and hope in God, who is able to ease Jobl's heavy grief, we cry with him to the All-Good Lord: Alleluia!

Ikos 11

Bright is the illumination of the Long-suffering One, bright is his hope. The past time kept Job silent words. And if his three friends were silent, who would rebuke Job, for Job was righteous before them. A new interlocutor, Elius, speaks to him, and the righteous listens to his speech more sympathetically. But Job, who is not able to comprehend all these new words, behold the Lord Himself appeared to His servant and spoke to Job through the storm and stormy clouds, rebuking, and instructing, and healing him. The same one with reverent trembling, listening to the word of God, silently reproached itself with a multiplicity, most of all knowing, as if it were nothing before the face of God: and abie, the righteous soul was filled with gracious humility. Seeing such deep humility before the Lord, we joyfully sing to Job:

Rejoice, great in the purity of your speeches before the Lord.

Rejoice, great one in immeasurable humility before the Lord.

Rejoice, knowing your insignificance, placing your hand on your lips.

Rejoice, like Abraham, you who named the earth and ashes to yourself.

Rejoice, wise wise one, who experienced the fate of a person in the world before Christ.

Rejoice, faithful servant of the Lord, not daring to speak of your wisdom.

Rejoice, thou who didst not say a single word about the speeches of one's friends.

Rejoice, for you reverently listened to the Lord about the wondrous deeds of the omnipotence of God.

Rejoice, in thoughtless thought before God contritely rebuking yourself.

Rejoice, bowing before the wisdom of the One God with all your soul.

Rejoice, in your humility, joyfully listening to the Lord who reproved you.

Rejoice, having renounced all your bold speeches before the Lord and repented in dust and ashes.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 12

Gracious great joy in your heart, Long-suffering, down. You saw your Lord in the storm and the cloud. You are the reproving word of the Lord to you, and you have heard His angry word to your unfaithful friends. Terrible leprosy come down with you, Job, and you have received all the blessings of the earth in a special number from the Lord. As a reward for sorrows, you acquired your longevity, by the grace of God, and you joyfully contemplated a new ten of your children. Resurrection with all your chosen ones, Lord, you are promised. Despising all our sorrows, the righteous man and we together with him with all our hearts joyfully cry out to the Lord: Alleluia!

Ikos 12

Having endured immeasurable sorrows and showing complete devotion to the all-holy will of God, showing a living prototype of the sorrows of the Lord, having overcome the suffering of the devil on the cross, you appeared to Job. Singing your wonderful life, praising your immeasurable long-suffering, Long-suffering, the words of the Lord Himself, His prophets and apostles, and church words we praise to you:

Rejoice, righteous one, praised by the mouth of God throughout the whole universe.

Rejoice, revealing the truth in the words about God, not like your lying friends.

Rejoice, as the Lord has shown you one prayer book for your friends.

Rejoice, for the Lord forgive such sins for your prayers.

Rejoice, not once a true servant of God named by the Lord Himself.

Rejoice, great Old Testament prayer book along with Noah and Daniel.

Rejoice, as the brother of the Lord has named you the image of malice and long-suffering.

Rejoice, for the same Apostle James praised in your life the glorious death of the Lord.

Rejoice, for the Church of Christ commanded you to read your holy book during Passion Week.

Rejoice, prototype of the passions of the sinless Lord.

Rejoice, as Holy Chrysostom called us in the image of your suffering to imitate your feat.

Rejoice, for in the Holy Church your name is glorious, honorable and glorified.

Rejoice, Job the Long-suffering, teacher of the whole world.

Kondak 13

Oh, the great righteous man of the Old Testament, Job the Long-suffering, accept our feasible praise of your immeasurable deeds for the glory of God. With your strong prayers at the throne of God, give help to us, kneeling our knees before your many years of severe suffering, firm in temptation and misery of being, unshakably believe in the eternal afterlife, to receive, by the grace of God, the crowns of the righteous at the terrible judgment of Christ, firmly hope, Yes, and we, in our renewed flesh, with you and with all the saints, will be able to see the Redeemer and our Lord and sing to him forever: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

(This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1 and kontakion 1)

Prayer 1st to the righteous Job the Long-suffering

Oh, great righteous man, Job the Long-suffering, shining with his pure life and holy closeness to God. You lived on earth before Moses and Christ, and all the commandments of God, carrying them in your heart, fulfilled you. The mysteries revealed to the world through Christ and His Holy Apostles, having comprehended with their deep revelations, have been honored to be a partaker of the influences of the Holy Spirit. All the intrigues of the devil, in the special temptations sent to you from the Lord, having overcome with your true humility, the image of malice and long-suffering of the whole universe appeared to you. I have great love for God and for all people in their immeasurable sorrows, preserving with a pure heart behind the tomb of unity with the Lord, joyfully waiting for you. Now you are in the village of the righteous and stand before the Throne of God. Hear us sinners and indecent ones, standing before your holy icon and diligently resorting to your intercession. Pray to God, who loves mankind, that he will strengthen us in faith, more immaculate and indestructible, the enemy of the visible and invisible will protect us from all evil, in sorrows and temptations he will give us a fortress, in our hearts the memory of death will forever be preserved, in long-suffering and brotherly love he will strengthen, and will make us worthy of give a good answer to the terrible judgment of Christ and in the resurrected flesh of our Triune God, contemplate and sing His glory with all the saints forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer 2 to the righteous Job the Long-suffering

Oh, holy servant of God, righteous Job! Having labored on earth with a good feat, you received in Heaven the crown of truth, which the Lord has prepared for all those who love Him. The same, looking at your holy image, we rejoice in the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if not worthy of us, to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The holy righteous Job, by birth, came from the tribe of Abraham; he lived in Arabia, - his place of residence was the land of Khus 1, which was inhabited by the descendants of Utz, the nephew of Abraham, the son - the firstborn of Nahor, the brother of Abraham (Gen.22:20-21).

Life of Righteous Job. Mstera. 19th century icon.

Job was a man of truth (Job. 6:24-30; cf. 27:2-4), - he was distinguished by impeccable behavior, justice with benevolence to all and charity, and most of all by God-fearing, observing the innocence of his heart and avoiding everything evil not only in their deeds, but also in their inner thoughts.

He had seven sons and three daughters. He was also famous in his country for wealth: he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pairs of oxen, five hundred donkeys and many servants; he took a lively and active part in the lives of his fellow tribesmen and had a great influence on public affairs, for throughout the East he was in great honor for his nobility and honesty (Job. 30: 5-10; cf. 1-3).

The sons of Job, although each lived separately, in his own tent - house, but nurtured such strong mutual love and lived in such harmony with each other that they never allowed themselves to eat and drink separately, apart from their kindred community. Every day, in turn, they made feasts at their place and spent time in a brotherly circle, together with their sisters, among innocent amusements, free from all excesses, alien to drunkenness and outrages. Even their good and righteous father would not have allowed gatherings of the unprincipled.

But since the feasts of Job's children were an expression of their brotherly love and quiet good manners, the righteous husband not only did not forbid them, but even encouraged them, consoling himself with family peace. Each time, after seven days, at the end of regular fraternal meetings, Job invited his children to carefully, in sincere conscience, check their behavior - whether any of them had sinned against God in word or thought; for he was very much afraid of God, but he was not afraid of the fear of a servant, but of the fear of filial love, and carefully watched both himself and his house, so that nothing would happen to them that would anger the Lord God.

However, the God-fearing righteous man was not limited only to observing his household and admonishing them to lead a blameless life, so that none of them even sinned in their thoughts before their Creator - but every time the circle of feasting days ended, Job, in the presence of all early in the morning I offered burnt offerings according to the number of all my children and one calf for the sin of their souls, for, he said, maybe my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts; so did Job on all such deliberate days (Job 1:5).

At one time, when in heaven the Angels of God, the guardians of the human race, gathered before the throne of the Almighty God to intercede before Him with their intercession for the people and bring to Him human prayers for all kinds of vital needs, the devil came between them, the slanderers and tempter of the human race. Satan, cast down from heaven, by the permission of God appeared there, among the Angels, without changing his fallen nature, not out of good will to intercede for the good, but in order to vomit his anger and blaspheme the good. Satanic pride in its inner blindness never reconciles itself with the truth, does not see a joyful world in humility and submissive devotion to the will of the All-Good God; she boldly introduces a reassessment of the existing, according to her gloomy look and into the alien, luminous area of the Divine life, boldly measuring everything with the measure of her conceit!

And the Lord said to Satan, who appeared with the angels:

Where did you come from?

Satan replied:

I have walked the earth and traveled all over it.

The Lord said to him:

Have you turned your attention to My servant Job? You cannot find another person on earth who, like him, would be so blameless, just, God-fearing, alien to any vice!

To this Satan answered the Lord:

Is Job God-fearing for nothing? Are you protecting him? Didn't You fence around his house and everything that he has? You blessed the works of his hands and multiplied his flocks and spread them over the earth. But stretch out Your hand and touch everything that he has, take it away from him, then you will see if he will bless You?

Then the Lord said to Satan:

Everything that he has, I give into your hands, do as you will, but do not touch him.

Your oxen in the field plowed in pairs under a yoke, and donkeys grazed beside them; suddenly the Sabeans attacked and drove them away, and killed the servants; only I escaped and ran to inform you.

While this one was speaking, another messenger came to Job and said:

Fire fell from heaven and consumed all the flocks and shepherds; I escaped alone and came to tell you.

This one had not yet finished his speech, a new messenger comes and informs:

The Chaldeans came up and, dividing into three detachments, surrounded the camels and drove them away, and killed the servants; I escaped alone and came to tell you.

While this one was speaking, another messenger comes and says to Job:

Your sons and your daughters feasted in the house of their elder brother; suddenly a terrible whirlwind rushed out of the desert, grabbed the house from four corners and brought it down on your children; all died; I alone escaped and came to inform you.

Having listened to these terrible news one after another, Job got up, as a sign of his severe grief, tore his outer garment, cut off his head, fell to the ground and, bowing before the Lord, said:

Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I will return to the womb of mother earth. The Lord gave, the Lord took! - as He pleased, so it happened; may the name of the Lord be blessed!

So in all this Job did not sin against God with one foolish word (Job 1:13-22).

There was a day when the Angels of God again stood before the Lord; Satan also came between them.

And the Lord said to Satan:

Where did you come from?

Satan replied:

I was on the ground and went around it all.

The Lord said to him:

Have you turned your attention to My servant Job? There is no person on earth who would be like him: he is so kind, truthful and pious, he is so far from everything evil! And with the misfortunes that befell him, he still remains firm in his integrity; and you provoked Me against him, to destroy him without guilt!

And Satan answered the Lord and said:

Skin for skin, and for his life a man will give everything that he has - that is: in someone else's skin a person can suffer; in someone else's skin, the blows are not so sensitive, even the removal of this skin is tolerable, not painful for him, and he can remain calm; but try to touch his own body, stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh and you will see - will he bless you?

Then the Lord said to Satan:

Here it is in your hand. I let you do with it what you want; only save his soul - do not encroach on the basis of his being, free will (Job. 2: 1-6).

Satan departed from the presence of the Lord and struck Job's whole body with a terrible leprosy from the soles of his feet to the very crown of his head. The sufferer had to move out of the midst of living people, since he was intolerant among them due to the contagiousness of the disease that had seized him. His body was covered with disgusting, stinking scabs; a burning inner fire poured through all the joints; sitting, outside the village, in the ashes, Job scraped his festering wounds with a piece of a shard. All his neighbors and acquaintances moved away, left him. Even his wife lost compassion for him.

After a long time, in a state of despair, she once said to Job: “How long will you endure? - Behold, I will wait a little longer in the hope of my salvation; for your memory, sons and daughters, the diseases of my womb and the labors with which I labored in vain, have perished from the earth. You yourself sit in the stench of worms, spending the night without a cover, while I wander and serve, move from place to place, from house to house, waiting for the sun to set in order to calm down from my labors and illnesses that now depress me. persevere, do not unswervingly defend your integrity; but say a certain word to God, blaspheme Him and die - in death you will find liberation from your sufferings, it will also deliver me from torment.

So simply and naturally, apparently even satisfactorily, Job's wife resolved for him and for herself the question of life, without extending beyond the earthly understanding of its meaning and purpose, at the suggestion of Satan - "skin for skin." Exhausted and morally tired, she was ready to put out the last light of true life: "blaspheme God and die."

However, the sufferer himself, Job, did not talk about his condition in this way, looking at his human nature not from the point of view of narrow selfishness. Looking at his wife with regret, he said to her:

Why are you talking like one of those crazy wives? If we accepted the good from God, then are we really intolerant of the evil - we will not accept!

And this time, in this way, Job did not sin against God - his mouth did not utter anything blasphemous against God (Job.2: 7-10).

The rumor about the misfortune that befell Job spread throughout the surrounding countries. His three friends: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Sabbathite, and Zophar the Naamite 2, aware of his misfortune, gathered together to go and comfort the sufferer, sharing his sorrow. But, approaching him and not recognizing him, because his face was a continuous purulent scab, they still screamed and sobbed from afar from horror, each tore his outer clothes and in great sorrow threw dust up over their heads. They then spent seven days and seven nights sitting on the ground opposite their friend and not saying a single word, for they saw that his suffering was very great and did not find means to comfort him in such a state (Job 2:11-13). This lingering silence was broken by Job himself. He was the first to open his mouth: he cursed the day of his birth and expressed deep sorrow about why he was given to see the light, which is now covered with darkness for him? Why was life given to him when it is a joyless torment for him?

The terrible thing, which I was terrified of, then befell me, - said the sufferer, - and the terrible thing, which I was afraid of, then came to me. I have no peace, no rest, no joy! (Job 3:1-26).

Then his friends also entered into a conversation with him, although with their reasoning, with which they wanted to console him, they only poisoned his tormented heart even more (Job. 21:34; 16:2 ff.). According to their sincere conviction, according to their belief that the Just God rewards the good and punishes the evil, they considered it indisputable and undeniable that if anyone is subjected to misfortune, he is a sinner, and the greater this misfortune, the darker his sinful state. Therefore, they thought about Job that he had some secret sins, which he knew how to skillfully hide (Job. 32 - 33, etc.) from people and for which the All-Seeing God punishes their friend. This they made the sufferer feel from the very beginning of their conversations, and then, in the continuation of their long reasoning, they urged him to confess and repent of his crimes. Job, in the consciousness of his integrity with all the apparently convincing speeches, considered himself inwardly far from recognizing their reasoning as just (Job. 27:1-7; cf. 10:17); with all the strength of innocence he defended his good name.

Job explained to his friends and assured them that he did not suffer for sins, but that God, in His will, incomprehensible to man, sends a hard life to one and a happy life to another. Job's friends, who believed that God deals with people according to the same laws of retribution, according to which he pronounces His judgment and human justice, were not convinced by his justifying words, although they stopped their denunciations directed against him and stopped responding to his words (Job. 32:1-15). At this time, a certain Elihu, the son of Barahiel, from the tribe of Ramov, a Vuzite, took an ardent part in the general conversation, young in years; with fiery boldness, he took up arms against the venerable sufferer "because he justified himself, his innocence, more than God" (Job.32: 2ff.). Giving justice to the Creator, which is inaccessible to man, this interlocutor also saw the reason for Job's suffering in his depravity, even if it was not noticeable to human eyes.

God is mighty and does not despise a strong heart with a fortress. He does not support the wicked, nor turn away His eyes from the righteous; but you, - said Elihu to Job, - you are full of judgments of the ungodly, for, according to your judgment, the punishment sent to you from God is undeserved, "but judgments and condemnation are close," so closely adjoin between you (Job.36: 5- 17).

Finally, the sufferer turned with a prayer to God, so that He Himself would testify of his innocence.

Indeed, God appeared to Job in a stormy whirlwind and rebuked him for his intention to demand an account in the affairs of world government. The Almighty pointed out to Job that for a person there is a lot of incomprehensible in the phenomena and creations of even one visible, surrounding nature; and after that - the desire to penetrate into the mysteries of God's fate and to explain why He treats people this way and not otherwise - such a desire is already impudent arrogance.

Who is this who darkens Providence with words without meaning? - the Lord asked Job from a stormy whirlwind. Now gird up your loins like a man, and answer: where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? - Tell me if you know. On what are its foundations established, or who laid its cornerstone amid the general rejoicing of the heavenly luminaries and the joyful laudatory exclamations of the sons of God? Have you ever in your life commanded the morning and indicated the place for the dawn? Do you know the statutes of heaven, can you raise your voice to the clouds, can you send lightning? - Adorn yourself with majesty and glory, put on splendor and splendor; Pour out the fury of your wrath, look at everything that is proud and arrogant and humble it, crush the strong wicked in their places. Then I also acknowledge that your right hand is strong to protect you. Competing with the Almighty, convicting God, let him answer.

And Job answered the Lord and said:

I know that You can do everything and that Your intention is unchanging.

Who is this who darkens providence, understanding nothing?

This is me, talking about what I did not understand - about wonderful things for me, which I did not know. I used to hear about You only out of the corner of my ear, but now my eyes see You; therefore I renounce and repent to dust and ashes; I am insignificant and what will I answer You? - I put my hand on my mouth (Job 38-40).

And it was after that command from the Lord to Job's friends that they turned to him and asked him to offer a sacrifice for them, for only the face of Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I will accept, so as not to reject you because you spoke about Me not so faithfully, as My servant Job (Job. 42:7-9). Friends fulfilled this Lord's command and brought seven bulls and seven rams to Job for sacrifice. Job offered a sacrifice to God and prayed for his friends. God accepted his intercession for them, restored his own bodily health, and gave him twice as much as he had before. The relatives and all former acquaintances of Job, having heard about his healing, came to visit him and confer and rejoice with him, and each of them brought him a gift and a golden ring. The Lord rewarded Job with His blessing: after that, he had fourteen thousand flocks, six thousand camels, a thousand pairs of oxen and a thousand donkeys. Born to Job, instead of the dead, and seven sons and three daughters; and in all the earth there were no such beautiful women as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers (Job. 42:10-15). The Lord did not double the number of Job's children, just as He doubled his shepherd's wealth: this is so that no one would think that his first dead children died completely - no, although they died, they did not die - they will rise on a common resurrection righteous.

Job, after the trials he endured patiently, lived one hundred and forty years (in all, he lived on earth two hundred and forty-eight years), and he saw his offspring up to the fourth generation; he died full of days in deep old age (Job. 42:16-17); now he lives a life that does not grow old and is not painful in the kingdom of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity of the glorious God, for even among the misfortunes he suffered on earth, he already saw how Abraham, the great day of the Lord, saw him and rejoiced ( John 8:56).

Know that there is a court (Job.19:29) 3 , - he broadcasts in instruction to us, - a court in which only those who have true wisdom - the fear of the Lord and - true mind - the removal from evil (Job.28:28) will be justified.

Troparion, tone 1:

Seeing the wealth of the virtues of the owls, steal the wiles of your righteous enemies, and having torn apart the pillar of the body, the treasure does not steal the spirit, you will find a more armed immaculate soul. And having laid bare my captivity: having preceded me before the end, deliver me the flatterer, Savior, and save me.

Kontakion, tone 8:

Yako is true and righteous, godly and blameless, consecrated is all-glorious, God's true servant, enlightened the world in your patience, patient and kind: the same is all God-wise, we sing your memory.

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1 The land of Khus was located southeast of Palestine, across the Dead Sea.

2 They came from the offspring of Esau, otherwise "Edom" (see Genesis 36).

3 The subject of the book of Job is the solution of the question: how to agree with the existence of the Providence of God in the world, that not uncommon phenomenon on earth that virtuous people spend their lives in the midst of disasters, while the wicked prosper? About the misfortunes that befell the righteous Job, his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, learned; they came to visit the sufferer, and when they saw a friend on the pus, they silently mourned him for seven days.

Then they entered into a conversation with him: coming out of the idea, common to the Old Testament, that all suffering is a punishment for some kind of unrighteousness, they, in their speeches addressed to Job, developed the idea that if he suffers now, then, without a doubt , for any of his sins, in which, therefore, he must repent. Grieved by the speeches of his friends and feeling that he was right before God, Job, complaining that the hands of the Lord were heavy on him, expressed his faith in the inscrutable judgments of God, before which the thought of man is powerless, and also his desire that the Lord Himself judge him. God appears to Job in the storm. Having denounced Job for the reckless demand from Him of an account in the administration of the world, the Lord inspires Job with reverence for the boundless and incomprehensible ways of the Providence of God, which directs everything to good deeds. In conclusion, the Lord commands Eliphaz and his companions to ask Job for prayerful intercession for the sin of his unjust condemnation, and Job was doubly rewarded for his losses and suffering. The question of the writer of the book of Job is debatable. St. Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom were inclined to the idea that they were Solomon. But with this it is difficult to agree with the general impression received from the book, which speaks of its incomparably earlier origin. It is completely silent about the laws of Moses; at the same time, the features of a patriarchal way of life, in which signs of a highly developed social life are already visible, appear in her presentation. Job, as a noble warrior, prince and judge, lives with considerable splendor and is honored with frequent visits to the nearby city; in addition, the book contains indications of the correct forms of legal proceedings, the ability of Job's contemporaries to observe celestial phenomena and draw appropriate astronomical conclusions from these observations; it speaks of mines, large buildings, as well as major political upheavals. All this gives grounds with a very significant degree of probability to attribute the time of Job's life to the time of the stay of the Jews in Egypt. Job, after days of prosperity, having experienced the loss of property, children, and severe illness, and then again and to a greater extent (42:10) having received from God what was lost, serves as a type of Christ the Savior, Who humbled Himself to the point of accepting a shameful death on the cross and for this was exalted from God the Father (Philippians 2:7-9), who accepted as a crown for the redemptive feat of mankind the glory that He had with the Father before the existence of the world (John 17:6). The Holy Hieromartyr Zenon, Bishop of Verona, who lived in the 4th century, finds still others - the most particular features of similarity between the prototype and the image. "Job, in my opinion," says the holy father, "was the image of our Savior Jesus Christ. Comparison will explain this truth to us. Job was righteous - our Savior is truth itself, the source of our righteousness, because it was predicted about Him:" the day will come ... the sun of truth will rise"(Mal. 4:1,2). Job was true, - our Lord is the true, perfect truth:" I am the way and the truth and the life"(John 14:6). Job was rich, but whose wealth can be compared with the wealth of our Lord, to whom the whole world belongs, according to the testimony of blessed David:" The Lord's is the earth and what fills it, the universe and all that lives in it"(Ps. 23: 1)? Job was tempted three times by the devil (deprivation of property, death of children and illness); similarly, according to the testimony of the evangelist, the devil also tempted our Lord three times (Matt. 4: 1-11). Job deprived of all his possessions, became impoverished - our Lord, out of love for us, descending to earth and leaving heaven with all its blessings, also became impoverished in order to enrich us. The children of Job were killed by the enraged devil, - the children of our Lord, the prophets, were beaten foolish people of the Pharisees (Luke 13:34; Acts 7:52). Job was stricken with ulcers - our Lord, having taken upon Himself our flesh and the sins of the entire human race, at the same time took all the uncleanness and sores of sin. Friends attacked Job him - the chief priests and scribes, who should especially honor Him and be His friends, rebelled against our Lord, primarily before all. human, addressed in this unclean world among people full of vices and seething with lusts, who betrayed Him to a shameful death outside the city. Job, with his invincible patience, again acquired both health and wealth - our Lord, having conquered death by His resurrection, granted those who believe in Him not only health, but also immortality, and received from God the Father power and dominion over everything, as He himself testified: " everything is given to me by my Father"(Luke 10:22). Blessed Job died in peace - our Lord, leaving us the world, bought at the price of His blood, ascended to His Father in meek and peaceful glory. In view of such a transformative significance of the life of righteous Job, the Church of old established dedicated to the remembrance of the sufferings of Christ, to offer to the attention of believers readings on the book of Job - Parimia from the book of Job during Passion Week are as follows: on Monday, at Vespers 1:1-12; on Tuesday, at Vespers 1:13-22; on Wednesday Vespers 2:1-10; Great Thursday Vespers 38:1-23; 42:1-5; Great Friday Vespers 42:12-17.

Holy Righteous Job the Long-suffering

The holy righteous Job lived 2000 - 1500 years before the birth of Christ, in Northern Arabia, in the country of Avsitidia, in the land of Uts. His life and suffering are described in the Bible (Book of Job). It is believed that Job was the nephew of Abraham; was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor. Job was a God-fearing and pious man. With all his soul he was devoted to the Lord God and in everything acted according to His will, moving away from all evil not only in deeds, but also in thoughts. The Lord blessed his earthly existence and endowed the righteous Job with great wealth: he had a lot of cattle and all sorts of property. The seven sons of the righteous Job and three daughters were friendly with each other and gathered for a common meal all together in turn at each of them. Every seven days, the righteous Job offered sacrifices to God for his children, saying: “Perhaps one of them has sinned or blasphemed God in his heart.” For his justice and honesty, Saint Job was held in great esteem by his fellow citizens and had great influence in public affairs.

Old Testament, Book of Job

There was a man in the land of Uz, his name was Job; and this man was blameless, just and God-fearing and moved away from evil.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
He had estates: seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and a very large number of servants; and this man was more famous than all the sons of the East.
His sons used to come together and make feasts, each in his own house on his own day, and send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
When the circle of banquet days was completed, Job sent for them and sanctified them, and rising early in the morning, offered burnt offerings according to the number of all of them [and one calf for the sin of their souls]. For Job said, Perhaps my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts. So did Job on all such days.
And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord; Satan also came between them.
And the Lord said to Satan: Have you paid attention to my servant Job? for there is no one like him on earth: a man blameless, just, God-fearing and moving away from evil.
And Satan answered the Lord and said, Is Job fearing God for nothing?
Didn't You fence him around, and his house, and all that he had? You blessed the work of his hands, and his flocks spread over the earth;
but stretch out your hand and touch everything he has, will he bless you?
And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your hand; but do not stretch out your hand on him. And Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.
And behold, a messenger came to Job and said:
the oxen were screaming, and the donkeys were grazing beside them, when the Sabeans attacked and took them, and struck the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone escaped to tell you.
While he was still speaking, another comes and says: the fire of God fell from heaven and scorched the sheep and the servants and devoured them; and I alone escaped to tell you.
While he was still speaking, another one comes and says: The Chaldeans settled down in three detachments and rushed at the camels and took them, and they struck the youths with the edge of the sword; and I alone escaped to tell you.
While this one was speaking, another comes and says: Your sons and your daughters ate and drank wine in the house of their firstborn brother;
and behold, a great wind came out of the wilderness and swept the four corners of the house, and the house fell on the youths, and they died; and I alone escaped to tell you.
Then Job got up and tore his outer garment, shaved off his head, and fell to the ground and bowed down.
and said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I will return. The Lord gave, the Lord took; [as the Lord pleased, so it happened;] blessed be the name of the Lord!
In all this Job did not sin and did not say anything foolish about God.

There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord; Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
And the Lord said to Satan: Where did you come from? And Satan answered the Lord and said, I have walked on the earth and have gone round it.
And the Lord said to Satan: Have you paid attention to my servant Job? for there is no one like him on earth: a man blameless, just, God-fearing and moving away from evil, and hitherto firm in his purity; but you stirred me up against him, to destroy him without guilt.
And Satan answered the Lord and said, Skin for skin, and for his life a man will give all that he has;
but stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, will he bless you?
And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in your hand, only save his soul.
And Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a fierce leprosy from the sole of his foot to the very top of his head.
And he took for himself a tile to scrape himself with it, and sat down in the ashes [outside the village].
And his wife said to him, You are still firm in your integrity! Fuck God and die.

Jan Lievens, Job

And Job answered and said:
truly, only you are people, and wisdom will die with you!
And I have a heart like you; I am not below you; and who does not know the same?
I became a laughingstock for my friend, I, who called on God, and to whom He answered, a laughingstock - a righteous, blameless man.
So despised is the torch prepared for the stumbling feet in the thoughts of the one who sits at rest.
The tents of robbers are quiet, and safe are those who irritate God, who, as it were, carry God in their hands.
And truly: ask the cattle, and he will teach you, the bird of the air, and tell you;
or talk to the earth, and he will guide you, and the fish of the sea will tell you.
Who in all this does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
In His hand is the soul of all living things and the spirit of all human flesh.
Does not the ear discern words, and does not the tongue recognize the taste of food?
In the elders - wisdom, and in long-term - reason.
He has wisdom and power; His advice and wisdom.
What He destroys, it will not be built up; whoever he locks up will not be released.
The water will stop and everything will dry up; let them go, and they will turn the earth.
He has power and wisdom, before Him he who errs and leads astray.
He drives the councilors into rashness and makes the judges stupid.
He strips the baldrics of kings and binds their loins with a sash;
deprives princes of dignity and overthrows the brave;
takes away the language from the eloquent and deprives the elders of meaning;
covers with shame the famous and weakens the strength of the mighty;
opens the deep from the midst of darkness and brings into the light the shadow of death;
multiplies nations and destroys them; he scatters the nations and gathers them;
takes away the minds of the heads of the people of the earth and leaves them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way:
they grope in darkness without light and stagger like drunkards.

Ilya Efimovich Repin, Job and his friends, 1869

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Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard, and noticed for itself.
As much as you know, I also know: I am not lower than you.
But I would like to speak to the Almighty and would like to compete with God.
And you gossipers of lies; you are all useless doctors.
Oh, if only you were silent! this would be imputed to you as wisdom.
Hear therefore my reasoning, and consider the objection of my mouth.
Did you have to tell lies for God's sake and tell lies for Him?
Was it proper for you to be partial to Him, and for God to contend in such a way?
Will it be good when He tests you? Will you deceive Him as a man is deceived?
He will punish you severely, even though you are secretly hypocritical.
Does not His majesty terrify you, and does not His fear fall upon you?
Your reminders are like ashes; your strongholds are strongholds of clay.
Be silent before me, and I will speak, whatever befalls me.
Why should I tear my body with my teeth and put my soul in my hand?
Behold, He kills me, but I will hope; I would only wish to stand my ways before Him!
And this is already an excuse for me, because the hypocrite will not go before Him!
Listen attentively to my word and my explanation with your ears.
So, I started a lawsuit: I know that I will be right.
Who can challenge me? For I will soon be silent and give up my breath.
Only do not do two things to me, and then I will not hide from Your presence:
take thy hand away from me, and let not thy terror overwhelm me.
Then call and I will answer, or I will speak and You answer me.
How many vices and sins do I have? show me my iniquity and my sin.
Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
Is it not a plucked leaf that You crush and do not you pursue a dry straw?
For You write bitter things against me and impute to me the sins of my youth,
and you put my feet in a stump and lie in wait for all my paths, you follow in the footsteps of my feet.
And he, like rot, decays, like clothes eaten by moths.

A man born of a woman is short-lived and full of sorrows:
like a flower it comes out and falls off; runs away like a shadow and does not stop.
And on him you open your eyes, and lead me to judgment with you?
Who is born pure from the impure? No one…

William Blake, Job the Accused

Job and his three friends, Holman Bible, 1890

And the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said:
Gird up your loins like a man: I will ask you, and you explain to Me.
Do you want to overthrow My judgment, accuse Me in order to justify yourself?
Do you have a muscle like God's? And can you thunder with your voice like Him?
Adorn yourself with greatness and glory, put on splendor and splendor;
Pour out the fury of your wrath, look at everything that is proud and humble it;
look at all the arrogant and humble them, and crush the wicked in their places;
bury them all in the ground and cover their faces with darkness.
Then I also acknowledge that your right hand can save you.
Here is the behemoth that I created, like you; he eats grass like an ox;
behold, his strength is in his loins, and his strength is in the muscles of his belly;
turns its tail like a cedar; the veins on his thighs are intertwined;
his legs are like copper pipes; his bones are like iron rods;
it is the top of the ways of God; only He who made him can bring his sword near him;
the mountains bring him food, and there all the beasts of the field play;
he lies under shady trees, under the roof of reeds and in swamps;
shady trees cover it with their shadow; willows by streams surround it;
behold, he drinks from the river and takes his time; remains calm, even though Jordan rushes to his mouth.
Will anyone take him in front of his eyes and pierce his nose with a hook?
Can you draw Leviathan with a fishhook and grab hold of his tongue with a rope?
Will you put a ring in his nostrils? Will you pierce his jaw with a needle?
will he beseech you much, and will he speak meekly to you?
Will he make an agreement with you, and will you take him forever as your slave?
will you play with him like a bird, and will you bind him for your girls?
will his fellow hunters sell it, will it be divided among the Canaanite merchants?
can you pierce his skin with a spear and his head with a fisher's point?
Lay your hand on it, and remember the struggle: you will not go forward.

Hope is in vain: will you not fall from one look of it?
There is no one so brave who would dare to disturb him; Who can stand before My face?
Who forewarned Me that I might repay him? under the whole sky everything is mine.
I will not keep silent about its members, about their strength and beautiful proportion.
Who can open the top of his garment, who can approach his double jaws?
Who can open the doors of his face? the circle of his teeth is horror;
his strong shields are splendor; they are sealed, as it were, with a firm seal;
one touches the other closely, so that even the air does not pass between them;
one with the other lie tightly, grappled and do not move apart.
His sneezing shows light; his eyes are like the eyelashes of the dawn;
flames come out of his mouth, fiery sparks jump out;
smoke comes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot or cauldron.
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of his mouth.
Strength dwells on his neck, and terror runs before him.
The fleshy parts of his body are firmly united among themselves, do not flinch.
His heart is as hard as stone and as hard as the bottom millstone.
When he rises, the strong men are in fear, completely lost in horror.
The sword that touches him will not stand, neither the spear, nor the javelin, nor the armor.
He regards iron as straw, copper as rotten wood.
The daughter of the bow will not put him to flight; sling stones turn to chaff for him.
The mace is considered by him as a straw; he laughs at the whistle of a dart.
There are sharp stones under him, and he lies in the mud on sharp stones.
He boils the abyss like a cauldron, and turns the sea into a boiling ointment;
leaves behind a luminous path; the abyss looks gray.
There is no one like him on earth; he is made fearless;
looks boldly at everything high; he is king over all the sons of pride.

And Job answered the Lord and said:
I know that You can do everything, and that Your intention cannot be stopped.
Who is this who darkens Providence, understanding nothing? - So, I spoke about what I did not understand, about things wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Hear, I called, and I will speak, and what I will ask You, explain to me.
I have heard about You by ear; now my eyes see you;
therefore I renounce and repent in dust and ashes.
And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath burns against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of me so well as my servant Job.
Take therefore for yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a sacrifice for yourself; and My servant Job will pray for you, for I will only accept his face, so as not to reject you because you spoke about Me not so correctly as My servant Job.
And Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shebheite and Zophar the Nahamite went and did as the Lord commanded them, and the Lord took the face of Job.
And the Lord returned the loss of Job when he prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all his former acquaintances came to him, and ate bread with him in his house, and grieved with him, and consoled him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him, and each gave him a kesite and a golden ring.
And God blessed the last days of Job more than the former: he had fourteen thousand flocks, six thousand camels, a thousand pairs of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
And he called the name of the first Emima, the name of the second - Cassia, and the name of the third - Kerengappuh.
And there were no such beautiful women in all the earth as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them their inheritance among their brothers.
After that Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons and sons of sons to the fourth generation;
and Job died in old age, full of days.

Saint John Chrysostom He speaks: " There is no human misfortune that this man, the hardest of all adamants, would not endure, who suddenly experienced hunger, and poverty, and illness, and the loss of children, and deprivation of wealth, and then, having experienced deceit from his wife, insults from friends, attacks from slaves, in everything he turned out to be harder than any stone, and, moreover, to Law and Grace.

Yevgeny Makarov, Job and his friends, 1869

Holy righteous Job the Long-suffering, holy prophet Moses the God-seer, holy prophet King David

Prayers to the holy and righteous Job the Long-suffering

Prayer one

O great righteous man, Job the Long-suffering, shining with his pure life and holy closeness to God. You lived on earth before Moses and Christ, and all the commandments of God, carrying them in your heart, fulfilled you. The mysteries revealed to the world through Christ and His Holy Apostles, having comprehended with their deep revelations, have been honored to be a partaker of the influences of the Holy Spirit. All the intrigues of the devil, in the special temptations sent to you from the Lord, having overcome with your true humility, the image of malice and long-suffering of the whole universe appeared to you. I have great love for God and for all people in their immeasurable sorrows, preserving with a pure heart behind the tomb of unity with the Lord, joyfully waiting for you. Now you are in the village of the righteous and stand before the Throne of God. Hear us sinners and indecent ones, standing before your holy icon and diligently resorting to your intercession. Pray to God, who loves mankind, that he will strengthen us in faith, more immaculate and indestructible, the enemy of the visible and invisible will protect us from all evil, in sorrows and temptations he will give us a fortress, in our hearts the memory of death will forever be preserved, in long-suffering and brotherly love he will strengthen, and will make us worthy of give a good answer to the terrible judgment of Christ and in the resurrected flesh of our Triune God, contemplate and sing His glory with all the saints forever and ever. Amen.

Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld, The Suffering Job and His Friends, 1852-1860, Leipzig

Prayer two

O holy servant of God, righteous Job! Having labored on earth with a good feat, you received in Heaven the crown of truth, which the Lord has prepared for all those who love Him. The same, looking at your holy image, we rejoice in the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if not worthy of us, to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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