Bible Game · Chapter 6
Job and the Three Friends
A man sits among the ashes. His children, his wealth, and his skin are gone. Three friends sat beside him seven days without a word, and when at last they opened their mouths, they began to condemn him.
Old Testament · the Book of Job · the suffering of the righteous
Unfamiliar words in this case
- burnt offering — a sacrifice in which an animal was wholly burned; the burning up was the point.
The painting in this case
Ilya Repin · 1869 · oil — Repin sets a stretch of bare ground between them. Job sits stripped on the ashes; the friends stand over him in fine clothes, looking down. The mouth that explains another's suffering usually stands outside it, and above — the painting drew that height first.
A Bible detective game: read the Hebrew and Greek alongside the text, cross-examine the witnesses, and work out what actually happened. Not a quiz you memorize — you win by reading, weighing, and judging. Free, in Korean and English.
This game makes no theological judgments. Every verdict rests only on the narrative facts the text itself states.
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