Testament of Job

Kohler1897 English translation, printed page 316

316 K. Kohler. 27. Whereupon, my children, I replied: “I shall from love of God!) endure until death all that will come upon me, and 1 shall not shrink back”. 28, Then the angel put his seal upon me”) and left me. Chapter IT. 1. After this I rose up in the night and took fifty slaves and went to the temple of the idol and destroyed it to the ground, 2. And so I went back to my house and gave orders that the door should be firmly locked; saying to my door- keepers: 3. “If somebody shall ask for me, bring no report to me, but tell him: He investigates urgent affairs. He is inside’’. 4. Then Satan disguised himself as a beggar and knocked heavily at the door, saying to the door-keeper: 5. “Report to Job and say that I desire to meet him”. 6. And the door-keeper came in and told me that, but heard from me that I was studying. {. The Evil One, having failed in this, went away and took upon his shoulder an old, torn basket3) and went in and spoke to the door-keeper saying: “Tell Job: Give me bread from thine hands that I may eat’. 8. And when I heard this, I gave her burnt bread to give it to him, and I made known to him: “Expect not to eat of my bread, for it is forbidden to thee’.4) 9. But the door-keeper, being ashamed to hand him the burnt and ashy bread, as she did not know that it was Satan, took of her own fine bread and gave it to him. 10. But he took it and, knowing what occurred, said to the maiden: “Go hence, bad servant, and 1) See Introduction nanan say ayer. ἢ pyn ἸῺ on; cf. Ezekiel IX, 4. In Christian writings the word applied to the cross as seal, the 15 having originally had the shape of a cross, [On this and similar signs of symbolic meaning, see H. K.: Geschichte des hebrdisch. Buchstaben Thaw in Rahmen’s Jiidische Literaturblatt, Jahrg. IX. nos. 32—33; Dr. A. Kohut: Arukh Completum, s. v. "3; and his last monograph: XSI Gee "8 } wr — Light of Shade and Lamp of Wisdom; being Hebrew-Arabic Homilies composed by Nathanel Ibn Yeshdya, 1327 (New York 1894), p. 77—78. G. A. K.] 3) ἀσιλλα for ἀσαλλιον xox. [cp. Kohut’s Arukh, s. v. Soy, I, p. 182] *) DIN ἀπηλλοσρίωϑην σοι = 7 NIN pn.