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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Job (Part 1 - Oxford)
Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Baldad (Job 9-10) / Job acknowledges that God can darken Sun and Stars (Job 9:7)
Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Baldad (Job 9-10) / Job acknowledges that God spreads out the heaven (Job 9:8)
Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Baldad (Job 9-10) / Job compares his life to an eagle with prey or a ship with goods passing by (Job 9:26)
Old Testament / Job / Job's reply to Baldad (Job 9-10) / Job complains that God would make him sordid even if he washed himself with snow (Job 9:30-31)

Further details

1. Job acknowledges that God rules the sun and 2. Spreads out the heavens; 3. He compares his days to a passing ship carrying goods or an eagle carrying prey; 4. He complains that even if he washed himselfs with snow-water God would make him sordid again

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: 214r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 214

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