Thus Did Job Continually (1987)

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Thus Did Job Continually (1987)

Student Commentary:

This image from the beginning of Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1987 facsimile) shows Job’s family before God tests him. It depicts Job’s devotion in a scene of pastoral peace; everyone’s faces are calm and serene. It is the calm before the storm, to be used as a comparison to the future scenes where Job and his family suffer their reversals of fortune and begin to question everything. Blake surrounds the central image with his own selection of texts, including an anachronistic prayer connecting Job’s faith and ordeal to the New Testament.

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Detailed View of Image at the William Blake Archive

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William Blake@Union Digital Collection