The meaning of the name Job as the enemy, the hated one, is a perfect and consistent tool in the portrayal of the main and undeniable theme of the Book: the bad karma of the cattleman.

#347 Iyowb, Job, means, hated, persecuted.

#347, Job, comes from the root

#340 ayab meaning to hate, to be an enemy.

   In entry 1358 we see how the author of Job cleverly named him after the very pit in which animals who were to be sacrificed were placed.

#1358 gob: from a root corresponding to 1461; a pit, for wild animals, as cut out; a den; a place in Palestine.

   It would be a rhetorical question to ask why someone who enslaves animals, then slaughters them, then makes a profit selling their slaughtered flesh to others should be hated or persecuted by Deity, and specifically by Shiva Pasupati, Lord of Beasts, Protector of Cattle.  Those who have read earlier chapters on this web site know the Lord of the Jewish Shabbath to be Sheba (Saba, Seba), the Lord of the Shabbath, or Sabbath.
 

   Gob also means both a husbandman (what the author no doubt thought Job should be).  f we go to #1461 in Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, we have Gob meaning a husbandman, one involved in agriculture, in tilling the soil.

   Job is certainly an enemy to the creatures he oppresses and thereby also an enemy to the original loving Deity who creates the creatures, and who commands them and humans to eat vegetation only.
 

  The following definitions of Satan and of words related to Satan, taken from James Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, show the similarity between Job, the animal sacrificer and what is Satanic.

7846 set, or cet, a departure from right, revolter, that turn aside.

7847 satah, to deviate from duty, decline, go aside

7852 satam, a primitive root meaning to lurk for, i.e., persecute; hate, oppose self against.

7853 satan, to attack, accuse, adversary, resist.

7854 satan, an opponent; Satan, the arch-enemy of good; adversary, Satan, withstand.
 

     "And God said `Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.'" l: 29-30.

   From the point of view of the vegetarian covenant stating that all creatures are to be vegetarian, Job, like Abel, commits evil when sacrificing animals. He and Abel are like the patriarchs who overthrew their original vegetarian beliefs, as seen in the destruction of the Asherah, or Asura, a name given to Hindu deities, a name meaning Almighty God.
 

   More than a few students of the Book of Job have commented on the so-called mystery of Job's name meaning hated, the enemy.  Strong says that Ijob is Job, the patriarch known for his patience. But as we will see, when we line by line explicate the narrative of the Book of Job,  Job is not at all patient, but quite the opposite during literally most of the narrative.  After his initial victory over despondence after the death of his offspring and the losing of his cattle--"The Lord has given; and the Lord has taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord"--he, when he himself is struck with tragedy in his own flesh, after the seven day initiatory time, a time in which he could have soothed his spirit, instead becomes the personification of despair and cynicism towards all things spiritual and is in fact described as impatient and antagonist to the divine will throughout the vast majority of the book.
 

  It is only in the coda, the ending of the Book of Job that we see Job resigning himself to the Will of Deity, and it is as patently a phoney ending as can be imagined, that even a sheer novice to literary criticism can detect, for the ending contradicts 95% of the commentary and narrative that preceded it.  To all those orthodox readers of Job, I assure you that this is easily proven, as you yourself will see, by a line by line explication of the moral narrative of the book.
 

   Moreover, the writer of the Book of Job attempted to insure that his message, the bad karma of those who sacrifice animals, was carried on to posterity by linking the Book of Job to the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, in which the creation of Leviathan and Behemoth is described. Leviathan and Behemoth both play their part in the book of Job, Behemoth as a grass eating vegetarian, and Leviathan as a Vishnu like power against which the waters of the Jordan, or orthodox Judaism, are powerless.

    As we shall see in the later chapters, the Book of Job, except for its patently phoney ending, is an extremely strong affirmation of Deity as the Lord of all Creatures.  In the Book of Job God declares that the waters where the lotus (sacred to Hindus and Buddhists alike) grows, and where Behemoth lives, are not threatened by the waters of the Jordan, the place of orthodox Judaism.  Moreover, God's praise of one of his strongest creatures, the vegetarian hippopotamus--Behemoth ("he eats grass like an ox'' says God) and the constant reminder to Job that Job will be at peace with creation if he changes his ways, that is, if he repents the bloodshed and slaughter that were his life's occupation, and especially the pervasive imagery of butchery that is used ironically over and over again to point out to Job that one who butchers other creatures should expect to feel his own spirit butchered by God--all these factors make it quite clear what the moral of Job is: the bad karma of the cattleman, hated by God, because the cattleman is brutal to the cattle created by Shiva, Lord and Protector of the Cattle.

     It's no mystery why theology students are not immediately taught
 about etymology and linguistics.  They'd get so knowledgeable that they'd threaten the hypocritical religious establishment whose real purpose is to support an oppressive industrial society and government.

   I accept the notion of the Zeitgeist, or the spirit of the time. "An idea whose time has come" is more than a platitude; it is a recognition that, in the larger scheme of things, sub specias eternitatis, i.e. under the aspect of eternity, material will be brought to light, and mysteries explained in their own due time.  The Maya, Hindus, Jains, Tibetans, and the ancient Egyptians, and most indigenous people have all had an understanding Time as controlled by divine or supramundane forces.