job in popular culture
Far's
song Job's Eyes, from their album Tin Cans with Strings to You, is based on Job's
story although it subverts moral of the biblical text; faced with the grieving
families of the men God allows to be killed in order to test him, Job renounces
God. The song's narrative ends with God himself standing in the storm he created
for Job and cursing the rain.
Bad Religion's song Sorrow, from the album The
Process of Belief, references the story of Job "Just to settle a bet that
could not be won/Between a prideful father and his son".
In South Park
episode 506 Cartmanland, Kyle's parents use The Book of Job as an explanation
to why bad things are happening to him, though they only tell Kyle Job 1-2, to
depress him further.
In Family Guy a episode features a priest reading the
sermon from the Book of Job. God is then seen in the audience and says 'Man I
hate it when they tell this story'
In the novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown,
a tablet is discovered with "Job 38:11" written on it. Job 38:11 states
"Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." It was used to mark a "dead
end" in a trail of clues.
In the short story "Fahrenheit 451 "
by Ray Bradbury , the protagonist, Montag, tries to memorize the Bible, starting
with the Book of Job.
Jack Miles, God: A Biography. Chapter on God as Fiend
in his role in the Book of Job.
The Comforters (1957) written
by Muriel Spark was a novel was inspired by her studies on the Book of Job.
In
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, chapter 3 verses 7 and 8 are paraphrased
by Davy Jones when summoning the kraken.
In the movie The Lawnmower Man, Job
is a name of a gardener on whom the main character, played by Pierce Brosnan,
conducts his experiments.
In the film Manhattan, Woody Allen's character Issac
compliments a girlfriend, Tracy, by saying, "You would have been God's answer
to Job. You would have ended all argument between them by saying, 'I can do a
lot of terrible things, but I can also create one of these' (Issac points at Tracy)."
Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is an agent who serves as a point man on a squad of intelligence operatives known as IMF, which is headed by Jim Phelps (Jon Voight). The movie begins with the team assembling for a mission in Prague to stop a traitor from stealing the Non-official cover (NOC) list—a comprehensive list of all IMF agents in Eastern Europe which includes their call signs and their real names. The mission goes inexplicably wrong, apparently resulting in the assassinations of nearly the entire team, including Phelps, leaving Hunt the sole survivor.
Fleeing the scene, Hunt sets up a rendezvous with Agent Kittridge (Henry Czerny), a member of the CIA, at a café where he exasperatedly discloses the details of the deaths of his teammates. Kittridge explains that a mole has infiltrated the IMF and was attempting to sell the NOC list to an illegal arms dealer named "Max". The entire mission was actually an attempt to ferret out this mole, and as Hunt is the sole survivor, the CIA believes he is the mole. Hunt realizes that his only chance of clearing his name is to go rogue and unmask the identity of the real mole, and flees from the café.
Ethan returns to the IMF safe
house, where he discovers that his fellow IMF agent Claire (Emmanuelle Béart),
Jim Phelps' wife, has also survived the mission. Ethan begins correspondence with
"Max" (Vanessa Redgrave), explaining that the NOC list stolen that night
was a fake, and offering to deliver the real NOC list in exchange for the identity
of the mole, who is codenamed "Job". Ethan uses a Bible – specifically,
the Book of Job – to form his communications with Max.
The books codes
form an important of the movie and is covered in this page.
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs is an unauthorized biography chronicling the life of Steve Jobs, a co founder of Apple Computer by Vanity Fair magazine writer Alan Deutschman. It covers his period at NeXT, an unexpected success at Pixar and his comeback to Apple followed by the introduction of iMac.Some thought the title was a subtle reference to the book, but this has not been proven.
International Order of Job's Daughters is a Masonic sponsored youth organization for girls aged 10 to 20. The organization is commonly referred to as simply Job's Daughters, and is sometimes abbreviated and referred to as IOJD. The founder was fond of the Book of Job, and took the name of the organization as a reference to the three daughters of Job. The Book of Job, 42nd chapter, 15th verse says, "In all the land were no women found so fair as the Daughters of Job,
Notably, the modern popular use of mogui as 'demonic' and gui as 'devils' is somewhat a consequence of Western influences as Chinese-language biblical texts translate the satan figure in the Book of Job and the Greek term 'diabolos' as mogui--even though a more adequate and literal translation would be (pinyin: shuochanyanzhe).
Howard Dean the famous and many would say "great" democratic presdential primaries candidate for 2004 made a small mistake when asked what his favourite book in the bible was. Though he was raised an Episcopalian, Dean joined the United Church of Christ in 1982 after a dispute with a local Episcopal diocese over a bike trail. By his own account, he does not attend church very often; at one point, when asked to name his favourite book in the New Testament, he offered the Old Testament Book of Job, then corrected himself an hour later. Most people were able to accept this as a honest error. And fans of the book would accept it as a compliment.
William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. Though he believed himself able to converse aloud with Old Testament prophets, and despite his work in illustrating the Book of Job, Blake's affection for the Bible was accompanied by hostility for the established Church.
Job: A Comedy of Justice is a novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1984. The title is a reference to the biblical Book of Job and James Branch Cabell's book Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1984 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1985.
Carl Jung, "Answer
to Job".
Harold Kushner, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Henry M. Morris, "The Remarkable
Record of Job"
James Morrow, "Blameless in Abaddon"
Neil
Simon, God's Favorite
Elie Wiesel, "Night"
Archibald MacLeish,
J.B.
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
David Adams Richards, Mercy
Among the Children
Violent Messiahs is a comic book series created by Joshua Dysart and William O'Neill and published by Image Comics. The comic takes place in a fictional city known as Rankor Island, and focused on the Rankor PD's attempts to bring in Rankor's vigilantes. The most prominent characters are Cheri and Houston, the two cops leading the investigation, Family Man, a serial killer who attacks bad parents, and Citizen Pain, a giant, dark figure who was the most prominent vigilante in Rankor (and became the face of VM).
The original comic was drawn by O'Neill, written by Dysart and published by Hurricane Press. Only one issue hit the shelves, and the second issue was scrapped. Years later, Image Comics picked up the rights to the series, and the original issue was remade, this time with art by Tone Rodriguez and a script by Joshua Dysart.
BOOK OF JOB, a collection of the first mini-series, was published in 2002. LAMENTING PAIN, the follow up featured the characters living in the aftermath of the original series and was only 4 issues long. It has not been collected.
Reptiles is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in March, 1943.
It depicts a desk, on which is a drawing of a tessellated pattern of reptiles. The reptiles come to life and crawl around the desk and over the objects on it to eventually re-enter the drawing. Although the desk is covered with ordinary objects, there is a metal dodecahedron which the reptiles climb over. Although only the size of small lizards, these reptiles appear to have tusks and the one standing on the dodecahedron blows smoke from its nostrils.
Like many of Escher’s works, this image was intended to depict a paradoxical and slightly humorous concept with no real philosophical meaning. There were, however, many popular misconceptions about the image’s meaning. Once a woman telephoned Escher and told him that she thought the image was a “striking illustration of reincarnation”. The most common myth revolves around a small book on the desk with the letters JOB printed on it. Many people believed it to be the biblical Book of Job, when in fact it was a packet of Job brand cigarettes.
It was
used by rock band Mott the Hoople as the sleeve artwork for their eponymous first
album, released in 1969.
In deeper culture
In the Qur'an Job is known as Ayyub and is considered a prophet in Islam. In the Arabic language the name Ayyub is symbolic of the virtue of patience, though it does not mean patience in itself. He is mentioned in several passages in the Qur'an.
Books that have been compared to Job
Biographies of many famous footballers