In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One God, Amen. Peace and
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

"Moreover, it is thus written of Job, ‘Job was a righteous man, and
blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil.’ But
bringing an accusation against himself, he said, ‘No man is free from defilement,
even if his life be but one day.’"  St. Clement of Rome, 100 AD.

btw, that second quote you will not find in your Bibles, it is the original verse for
Job 14: 4,5. Happy searching :-))

"Masters, be gentle towards your servants, as holy Job has taught you; for there
is one nature and one family of mankind." St Ignatius of Antioch, Martyr, 107 AD.

"You masters, do not treat your servants with haughtiness, but imitate patient
Job, who declares, ‘I did not despise the cause of my man-servant, or my
maid-servant, when they contended with me. For what in that case shall I do when the Lord
makes an inquisition regarding me?’." St Ignatius of Antioch, Martyr, 107 AD.

"Oh, happy also he who met all the violence of the devil by the exertion of every
species of patience-whom neither the driving away of his cattle nor those riches of his
sheep, nor the sweeping away of his children in one sweep of ruin, nor, finally, the agony
of his own body in (one universal) wound, estranged from the patience and the faith which
he had plighted to the Lord: who the devil smote with all his might in vain. For by all
his pains he was not drawn away from his reverence for God; but he has been set up as an
example and testimony to us, for the thourough accomplishment of patience as well in
spirit as in flesh, as well in mind as in body; in order that we succumb neither to
damages of our worldly goods, nor to losses of those who are dearest, nor even to bodily
afflictions. What a bier for the devil did God erect in the person of that hero! What a
banner did he rear over the enemy of His glory, when, at every bitter message, that man
uttered nothing out of his mouth but thanks to God, while he denounced his wife, now quite
wearied with ills, and urging him to resort to crooked remedies! How did God smile, how
was the evil one cut asunder, while Job with mighty equanimity kept scraping off the
unclean overflow of his own ulcer, while he sportily replaced the vermin that brake out
thence, in the same caves and feeding-places of his pitted flesh! And so, all the darts of
temptations had blunted themselves against the corslet and shield of his patience, that
instrument of God’s victory not only presently recovered from God the soundness of
his body, but possessed in re-doubled measure what he had lost. And if he had wished to
have his children also restored, he might again have called father; but he prefered to
have them restored to him "in that day". Such joy as that-secure so entirely
concerning the Lord-he deferred; meantime he endured a voluntary bereavement, that he
might not live without some (exercise of) patience."  Tertullian, 200 AD.

"The Holy Scriptures proves this (about making offerings for ones children-ed)
saying; ‘Job, a true and righteous man, had seven sons and three daughters, and
cleansed them, offering for them victims to God according to the number of them, and for
their sins one calf.’ If then you truly love your children, if you show to them the
full and paternal sweetness of love, you ought to be the more charitable, that by your
righteous works you may commend your children to God." St. Cyprian of Cathage, Bishop
and Martyr, 258 AD.

"And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise
again with those whom the Lord raises up." Job 42:17. (Sept)

The Septuagint I own records this epitaph:

SQ

"This man is described in the Syriac book as living in the land of Ausis, on the
borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian
wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare,
one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam
(Abraham) And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over,:
first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac,
Jobab, who is called Job: and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of
Thaeman, and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab;
and the name of his city was Gethaim. And his friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the
children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad soverign of the Sauchaeans, Sophar King
of the Minaeans," EQ

Therefore if Job was the fifth from our father Abraham the Patriarch and if God refered
to dinosaurs still living to Job then there were living dinosaurs around at least until as
late as 2000-1800 BC!!! What an interesting possibility.

In any case this may assist those who continually date Job to pre-Noah on the sole
basis of trying to explain the extinction of dinosaurs via the great flood.

Peace and grace.

"The Word was made flesh in order to offer up this Body for all,  and that
we, partaking of His Spirit, might be deified." Saint Athanasius the Apostolic.
298-373 AD.