# Job — The Inferno character guide

> Job in The Inferno by August Strindberg.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0005-iii-paradise-regained

## Who they are

Biblical figure invoked as a model of suffering and patience.

## In the story

### [V: Purgatory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/v-purgatory)

The narrator reads the book of Job and finds comfort in the idea that suffering is a mark of divine confidence.

### [IX: Extracts from the Diary of a Damned Soul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/ix-extracts-from-the-diary-of-a-damned-soul)

Alluded to in the narrator's comparison of his own suffering to biblical figures.

### [X: The Eternal Has Spoken](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/x-the-eternal-has-spoken)

Referenced as a biblical figure who, like the narrator, endured undeserved punishment yet justified himself.

### [XI: Hell Let Loose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_inferno_se/chapters/xi-hell-let-loose)

Strindberg compares himself to Job as an innocent sacrifice.

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