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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? ↩

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    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 ↩

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    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,6 Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar7 commiserate with him, sitting silent for seven days and nights. ↩

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    Though perhaps this ought to be put in qualifying quotes: “friends”. ↩

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    There is also Elihu, but more on him later. ↩