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Old Testament · Wisdom and poetry

Job

An extended poetic dialogue about suffering, and about the limits of easy explanations for it.

Book 18 of 66 · 42 chapters · 1070 verses

Chapters

Reading a whole book

Chapter and verse numbers were added centuries after these texts were written, and they occasionally fall in awkward places. If a chapter seems to begin mid-thought, it may well be doing exactly that — reading the end of the previous chapter usually resolves it.