Job's Wife
Job's wife is introduced in Job 2:9 when she suggests that Job curse God and die. She is not directly mentioned at any other place in the book. Throughout the ordeal, she survives and lives on with Job. There is uncertainty about her intentions when she tells Job to curse God but it is clear that Job honors her by the way he talks about her in Chapter 31. As he says in verse one, "I have made a covenant with my eyes. Why should I think on another woman?" He has remained true to his marriage vows, even in his heart, and has not lusted after someone else.
The later tradition preserved in the Greek Testament of Job (chap. 21-25; 39) names Job's first wife (cf. Job 2:9) as Sitidos (Sitis) and his later wife (expanded from Job 42:13 in T.Job 1:6) as Dinah.
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