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LXX Job

Septuagint

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Chapter 42

1 Then Job answered and said to the Lord, 2 I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.⁠ 3 For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I did not know, great and wonderful things which I did not understand? 4 But hear me, Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and teach me. 5 I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now my eye has seen you. 6 Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes. 7 And it happened after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job has. 8 Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept only him: for but for his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against my servant Job. 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.⁠ 10 And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before. 11 And all his brothers and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and so did all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped gold. 12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand female donkeys of the pastures. 13 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn. 15 And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 And Job lived after his affliction one hundred and seventy years:⁠ and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty-eight: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation. 17 And Job died, an old man and full of days: 17a and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. 17b This man is described in the Syriac book as living in the land of Uz, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab;⁠ 17c and having taken an Arabian wife, he fathered a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zerah, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bozrah, so that he was the fifth from Abraham. 17d And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balak, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah: but after Balak, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Husham, who was governor out of the country of Teman: and after him Hadad, the son of Bered, who destroyed Midian in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gittaim. 17e And his friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Temanites, Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites, Zophar king of the Minaeans.

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Summary

Genesis 10 names Jobab as a descendant of Joktan, and the extended ending of Job in the Greek Septuagint ends by identifying Job with this same Jobab. This attempts to connect Job to Genesis, presenting him as a part of Israel’s early history.

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Genesis 10:29

Hebrew Bible
25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
750–400 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Genesis

LXX Job 42:17

Septuagint
17 And Job died, an old man and full of days: 17a and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. 17b This man is described in the Syriac book as living in the land of Uz, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab;
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Job

References

"... The Jewish origins of the other additions are less certain. At the end of the final chapter of Job, the Septuagint offers five additional verses (Job 42:17–19). These verses assert that Job will be resurrected and that he was once called Jobab (Genesis 10:29). They give details of the family of Job/Jobab, the kings of Edom to whom Job belongs, and Job’s friends who were the kings of the neighboring lands (Jobab is named in LXX Gen 36:33–34 as the successor of Balak king of Edom). This mention of the resurrection may suggest a Christian origin, or there may be a connection to the Judaism of the Maccabees (which asserted that the good will be resurrected, but not the wicked: see 2 Maccabees 7:9, 11, 14, 23, 29) ..."
Gilles Dorival, The Septuagint from Alexandria to Constantinople: Canon, New Testament, Church Fathers, Catenae (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 40–41.

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