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# The trials of Job, shown naked and crowned beside a ruined house
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- Published: 2023-01-19T07:24:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:09:55.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Books

At first glance one might think that the wall of the ruined house, beneath whose shelter a naked Old Testament elder reposes, bears the word LOVE. But no, it is IOBBO, that is, Job, upon whom the Lord permitted a trial of many sorrows to be sent: the loss of his fortune, his house and his children, and dreadful diseases.

Oddly enough, Job, entirely naked and stripped of all his riches, propped on bales of straw in place of pillows and lying on the bare ground, scraping the plague sores from his skin with an oaken twig, is depicted wearing a crown. More often it is a halo that hovers over his head instead of a crown.

The two demons scattering tongues of flame over Job's roof recall the angels raining fire down upon Sodom and Gomorrah in Gozzoli's fresco in Pisa.

In spite of everything, Job did not waver in his blamelessness and did not renounce God, for which he was rewarded with healing, the birth of children, twice the wealth and a long life.

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