… In looking for deuterocanonical (apocryphal) texts for comparison which are functionally similar to Job 32, the Sirach Prologue and the preface of the epitomator (i.e. the author providing an ἐπιτομή, ‘summary’, from the historical account of Jason of Cyrene, compare 2 Maccabees 2:23) in 2 Maccabees 2:19–32 suggest themselves, since both are adaptations of the (originally Greek-Hellenistic) genre of the proem. Their analogous division into five parts each, deployment of similar rhetorical devices, and various parallels of content all serve to suggest that Job 32, likewise, draws on the structural and topical conventions of the Greek proem. First, each proem names the theme of the larger work about to be introduced: in the case of the Sirach Prologue verses 1–3, this is the wisdom handed down through the law, the prophets, and other later writings; in 2 Maccabees 2:19–22, the deeds of Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers. In Job 32, the same function is discharged by the secondary introduction (verses 1–5) …