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Job

The patient sufferer who endured great loss and remained faithful to God.

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First appearance: 45 pleading for mercy

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GOGodTNThe NarratorJCJesus ChristELElijahLOLotJOJob

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  • Other

Character groups

  • Divine Judgment and Mercy
  • Faith and Redemption Figures
  • Protagonist

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SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

The emotional peak occurs in stanza V, where the speaker’s hope is violently extinguished as Satan obscures ev…

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