Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Job (Part 1 - Oxford)
Old Testament / Job / Speech of Eliphaz (Job 4-5) / Eliphaz speaks on the deadly consequences of sin (Job 5:2)
Old Testament / Job / Speech of Eliphaz (Job 4-5) / Eliphaz praises God for frustrating the plans of the wicked (Job 5:12-13)
Old Testament / Job / Speech of Eliphaz (Job 4-5) / Eliphaz exhorts Job to trust in God's grace (Job 5:24-25)
Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Eliphaz (Job 6-7) / Job wishes he could weigh his sins against his suffering (Job 6:2-3)

Further details

1. Eliphaz stresses the deadly consequences of sin (God and Eve below refer to Job 4:7); 2. Eliphaz praises God for confounding the wicked; 4. Job wishes he could weigh his sins against his afflictions. The third image should depict Eliphaz's admonition to trust in God but has instead Job talking

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: 212r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 212

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