Job
Enduring Old Testament
Job is a biblical figure famous for enduring catastrophic suffering while maintaining faith in God.
The Book of Job explores why the righteous suffer.
A Job's comforter offers consolation that only makes things worse.
The patience of Job describes extraordinary endurance through hardship: You'd need the patience of Job to deal with those kids. (Lowercase job is work or a task.)
long-suffering
Patiently enduring hardship
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
- tribulationsCauses of great distress
- BibleOld Testament, New Testament, Holy Scriptures, Adam, Moses
- Bible BooksGenesis, Exodus, Proverbs, Matthew, Mark
- Bible FiguresAbraham, Moses, David, Paul, Peter
- Bible PeopleAbraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David
- Biblical FiguresJesus, Adam, Eve, Moses, Noah
- Hebrew BibleTanakh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
employment status
Jobunemployment
Being without paid work
joblessness · redundancy · layoff · retirement · idleness
income source
Jobinheritance
Property received from ancestors
trust fund · passive income · sinecure · lottery winnings · stipend
- good jobApproval for effort
- great jobPraise for accomplishment
- new jobRecently acquired employment
- summer jobTemporary warm-weather employment
- full-time jobWork requiring standard hours
- dream jobPerfect occupation imagined
jobs, jobless, jobbing, jobholder, jobseeker, jobseekers, jobholders, odd-job