10 May

It’s the feast day of the Old Testament Patriarch Job, a man “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.”

Above: Job and His Friends by Ilya Repin (1869)

For I am sure that my Redeemer liveth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my flesh.

Whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes shall behold, and none other for me, though my reins are consumed within me.

—Job 19:25-27, 1599 Geneva Bible