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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Job (Part 1 - Oxford)
Old Testament / Job / Speech of Eliphaz (Job 4-5) / Eliphaz claims that suffering is always a punishment from God (Job 4:5-9)
Old Testament / Job / Speech of Eliphaz (Job 4-5) / Eliphaz gives starving lions and tigers as example for just punishment (Job 4:10-11)
Old Testament / Job / Speech of Eliphaz (Job 4-5) / Eliphaz recounts a vision that told him that everyone deserved punishment (Job 4:13-18)

Further details

1. Eliphaz tells Job that all suffering is punishment; 2. Starving lions and tigers as example; 4. Eliphaz's vision - the mysterious being is depicted as Christ. Image 3, illustrating the beginning of Eliphaz's report of the vision, incorrectly shows Job speaking

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 211v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 211

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