The TanakhKetuvim
Jobאיוב
Job is a poem inside a story: two prose chapters at the start and a short prose close, with long speeches in verse between them. It holds some of the rarest words in the Tanakh. Tradition names Moses as its writer; the Talmud also records other views.
- Chapters
- 42
- Verses
- 1,070
- Words
- 8,343
- Letters
- 31,862
Job 1:1, the first of 1,070 verses
אִ֛ישׁ הָיָ֥ה בְאֶֽרֶץ־ע֖וּץ אִיּ֣וֹב שְׁמ֑וֹ וְהָיָ֣ה הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֗וּא תָּ֧ם וְיָשָׁ֛ר וִירֵ֥א אֱ־לֹהִ֖ים וְסָ֥ר מֵרָֽע׃
THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.