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The editors of the NOAB take a more sympathetic view of the exchange. Job's wife is seen as far more sympathetic: "The outcome of all Job's piety has been to rob his wife of her ten children, her social standing, and her livelihood." \parencite[737]{noab} Curse God, then. Who else could be responsible? How can you continue to praise after our ten (admittedly unnamed) children have died? The editors of the NOAB take a more sympathetic view of the exchange. Job's wife is seen as far more sympathetic: "The outcome of all Job's piety has been to rob his wife of her ten children, her social standing, and her livelihood." \parencite[737]{noab} Curse God, then. Who else could be responsible? How can you continue to praise after our ten (admittedly unnamed) children have died?
[^intro-intercalary]: Between the two halves of the fable --- Job's fall and God's reinstatement of him --- lies an intercalary period of at least a week [^intro-intercalary]: Between the two halves of the fable --- Job's fall and God's reinstatement of him --- lies an intercalary period of at least a week wherein his friends,[^intro-friends] Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar[^intro-elihu] commiserate with him, sitting silent for seven days and nights.
[^intro-friends]: Though perhaps this ought to be put in qualifying quotes: "friends".
[^intro-elihu]: There is also Elihu, but more on him later.