Bible -- Commentaries; Bible -- Feminist criticism; Women in the Bible
Nothing more is said of his first wife, but his ten children are
restored. The names of his three daughters are significant, though not
euphonious: Jemima, the day, because of Job's prosperity; Kezia, a
spice, because he was healed, and Karen-Happuch, plenty restored. God
adorned them with great beauty, no women being so fair as were the
daughters of Job. In the Old Testament we often find women praised for
their beauty; but in the New Testament we find no notice of physical
charms, not even in the Virgin Mary herself. Job gave to his daughters
an equal inheritance with his sons. It is pleasant to see that the
brothers paid them marked attention, and always invited them to their
dinners, and that his ten children were reproduced just as his flocks
and his herds had been.
Much more sympathy has been expressed by women for the wife, than for
Job. Poor woman, she had scraped lint, nursed him and waited on him to
the point of nervous exhaustion--no wonder that she was resigned to see
him pass to Abraham's bosom. Job lived one hundred and forty years.
Some conjecture that he was seventy years old when his calamities came
upon him, so that his age was doubled with his other blessings. Whether
Dinah lived to cheer Job's declining years, or whether she was lured by
Satan to his kingdom, does not appear; but he is supposed to have had a
second wife, by the name of Sitis--the probable mother of the second
brood.
E. C. S.
BOOKS OF PSALMS, PROVERBS, ECCLESIASTES
AND
THE SONG OF SOLOMON.
PSALMS.
Psalms xlv.
9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right
hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget
also thine own people, and thy father's house;
11 So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord;
and worship thou him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: even the rich
among the people shall entreat thy favour.
13 The King's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of
wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the
virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter
into the King's palace.
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