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Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Eliphaz (Job 6-7) / Job compares himself to starving asses and oxen (Job 6:5)
Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Eliphaz (Job 6-7) / Job compares himself to a stag yearning for shadow (Job 7:2)
Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Eliphaz (Job 6-7) / Job complains that his life is cut more quickly than threads cut by the weaver (Job 7:6)
Old Testament / Job / Speech of Baldad (Job 8) / Baldad compares the ungodly with dry bushes and their trust with a spider's web (Job 8:11-14)
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Further details
1. Job compares himself to starving asses and oxen; 2. Job compares himself to a stag yearning for shadow (the 'cervus' is a corruption for 'servus' found in some medieval Bibles); 3. Job compares his life to quickly cut threads; 4. Baldad compares the ungodly to dry bushes or cobwebs
Artist or creator
Date
1233 (circa)
Location
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 213v.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 213
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