Righteous Job the Long-Suffering

Job is the hero of the biblical Book of Job: a rich and upright man of the land of Uz, east of Israel, who in a single series of disasters lost his herds, his servants and his ten children, and then was struck with painful sores. Even so, he said: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away.' His friends argued that he must be suffering for some hidden sin; Job insisted on his innocence and called on God to answer him.

At the end of the book God speaks to him out of the whirlwind, and his fortunes are restored twice over. Dimitry of Rostov, following an ancient tradition, counts him among the descendants of Abraham living in Arabia. The Church remembers him as an example of patience in suffering.