The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 153, is Job 25-30: Job defends himself against Bildad, maintains his innocence, and expresses a desire to return to the former days of wine and roses.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 152, is Job 21-24: Job defends himself against Zophar, attacking the assumption that the wicked are always punished for their sins in this life.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 151, is Job 17-20: Job defends himself against Eliphaz and Bildad, and expresses the hope that “My Redeemer lives.”
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 150, is Job 13-16: Job continues to defend himself against Zophar and longs for a mediator between himself and God.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 149, is Job 9-12: Job defends himself against Blidad’s denunciations, in his second response.
Job and his Comforters by Luca Giordano (c. 1700)
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 148, is Job 5-8: Job defends himself against Eliphaz’s denunciations, in Job’s first response.
Job and his friends by Ilya Repin (1869)
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 147, is Job 1-4: A story in the genre of Wisdom literature, Job is about a righteous man who suffers, and his dialogues with four friends, and God. Author and date of composition are unknown.
Job, by Léon Bonnat (1880)
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A complete animated overview from the Bible Project of the book of Job.
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The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 146, is Esther 6-10: Against great opposition, in ways tragic and comic, Esther rescues her people and reverses their fortunes. The feast of Purim is established to commemorate the event.
Esther and Mordecai writing the first letter of Purim, by Arent de Gelder (1685)
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A complete animated overview from the Bible Project of the book of Esther.
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