# ending of Job

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 30, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562 "2001-10-30T17:58:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![gump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@gump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gump)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562/1 "2001-10-30T17:58:15Z")

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Kudos, Dex! Being a biblical theme, you are sure to get some complaints. You did a well-researched, well-reasoned, and well-balanced job.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562/2 "2001-10-30T18:33:18Z")

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Nicely written piece.  
I’ll probably go to Hell for this (if I’m not already bound for that place as an agnostic), but my favorite comment on God’s reply comes from George Bernard Shaw’s **The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search of God** : “That’s not an answer, that’s a sneer!”

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**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562/3 "2001-10-30T19:24:02Z")

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Good piece Dex.

BTW, is the footnote derived from [Davidson?](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D002907052X/107-6505518-3302928) Excellent book IMO.

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**Author:** ![\_Gravity775](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9de053/32.png) [@\_Gravity775](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Gravity775)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562/4 "2001-10-30T19:36:31Z")

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This was a fine and very interesting report on Job, but I am puzzled as to why the words “prologue” and “epilogue” were egregiously misspelled as “prolog” and “epilog”. For a self-proclaimed bastion of learning and knowledge, it seems rather contradictory to use these bizzare lazy spellings. I wouldn’t expect to see “cigaret” her either.

Just two cents from a pedant. I was dissapointed; but then it is a dissapointing world for pedants. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562/5 "2001-10-30T20:34:00Z")

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**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-of-job/90562/6 "2001-10-31T00:42:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by |Gravity775| \*  
> I wouldn’t expect to see “cigaret” **her** either.

D’OH!