Then a Spirit passed before my face
Then a Spirit passed before my face
Artist
Creation date
1825
Materials
engraving on India paper chine collé
Dimensions
17 x 13 1/4 in. (sheet)
Credit line
Beeler Fund
Accession number
2002.142J
Collection
Not Currently On View
Job's three friends try to console him and express the traditional and pious views about his suffering. One of them, Eliphaz, evokes the image of God as the punisher of the wicked. Since Job is being punished, he must be wicked and he must accept this judgment as the divine will rather than rebel against it.
ex collection Professor Frank Jewett Mather
