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CHAPTER 34
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THE STORY OF
Iyov
(also known as Job)
INTRODUCTION: Iyov is thought to be the oldest book that came to be included in the Biblical collection. It addresses the same basic question that many of us struggle with today: “Why would YHWH allow me to go through this problem?” It gives us a look “behind the scenes” at what may precipitate such experiences, and tells us some of the wrong ways to approach the question as well as the right. Iyov may have been one of the men called Yov-av in Genesis 10:29 (a grandson of Ever, and therefore a Semite and a Hebrew) or Gen. 36:33-34 (an Edomite king (especially considering that the man whose reign followed his was a Theymanite--precursor to the Yemenites--an ethnicity that shows up among Iyov’s closest friends—Elifaz. (2:11) An Elifaz the father of Theyman actually appears in the same chapter (36:11), also among Esau’s descendants. This is not proven, but the possibility is intriguing.
