Job's
Patient patriarch's possessive
Job's refers to the biblical figure Job, whose story centers on undeserved suffering and patient endurance.
The possessive appears most often in Job's comforter—someone who, intending to console, actually makes things worse, like Job's friends who blamed him for his misfortunes.
The patience of Job describes extraordinary forbearance through hardship.
Calm during delays
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
- faithTrust without proof
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
testing · perseverance · endurance · affliction · restoration · lament · theodicy · comforters
patience
Calm during delays
righteousness · testing · perseverance · endurance · affliction · restoration · lament · theodicy · comforters · whirlwind
plant
Botanical organism
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- beadPierced ornament for threading
- ornamentalFor beauty, not function
grass · necklace · rosary · cereal · Asian · porridge · medicinal · heirloom · seed · pearly
Job'sdefiant
Openly resisting control
rebellious · blasphemous · apostate · impatient · complaining
- 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