Monday, October 15, 2007

Was Job a PhD student?

Below commented fragments of The World English Bible that indicate that Job was a PhD student.

2:11 Now when Job's three friends (...)


THREE friends?! What a social life!

7:3 so am I made to possess months of misery,
wearisome nights are appointed to me.


Classwork, conference deadlines, ppt presentation for the adviser...

19:20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.


Not a lot of sleep, huh? Lotta ramen noodles?

7:19 How long will you not look away from me,
nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?


Let the kid do research, will ya?

19:14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.


Yes... they can't stand hearing about your thesis anymore!

3:13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet.
I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,


Yes. You should have taken a real job.

9:29 I shall be condemned.
Why then do I labor in vain?


He knew nobody would read his thesis.

11:5. And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,
11:6. That he might show thee the secrets of wisdom,(...)


God was his advisor.

15:9 What do you know, that we don’t know?
What do you understand, which is not in us?


The thesis defense.

20:22. When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.


And then he graduates. But no jobs were there for him. Oh sorrow...

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