A Mystery of the Bible
Solved:
Why Job's Name is Associated with Persecution
and Hatred,
and with being an Adversary.
Job suffers because he has persecuted
and been an adversary
to the animals he has sacrificed.
In short, Job rebelled against the
Vegetarian Covenant of Genesis.
The Theme of the Book of Job is not
"the patience of Job,"
but the Bad Karma of the Cattleman.
The Name Job means the Enemy, the Hated
One,
which is the role he plays to the animals
he sacrifices.
Job's sufferings are frequently likened
in the dialogues
to the butchering of animals.
Job is Against the Vegetarian Covenant
of Genesis.
And this is the central fact of the
Book,
around which the drama of the dialogues
revolves.
It is only in the final chapter that
Job is seen as approved by God.
The final chapter is a phoney a revision
as there is in the literature of the world.
Like the Book of Genesis the
final chapter has been rewritten to favor Job instead of condemn him, which
is the function
of over ninety per cent of the Book
of Job.
Job the cattleman suffers because he
causes suffering
to the Animals he enslaves, oppresses,
and sacrifices.
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.
The Multiple Uses of Irony in the Book of Job:
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.
Job the Cattleman who Sacrifices Animals
Was regarded as Satan to the Animals.
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.
Job is Against the Vegetarian Covenant of Genesis.
"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.
Job is not patient.
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.
The Last Chapter of the Book of Job
is as Phoney a Rewrite
as one will see in the literature of
the world.
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.
The Writer of the Book of Job linked
the Book to the Book of Enoch.
The Ethiopic Book of Enoch Bluntly
Affirms Vegetarianism.
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.
The Moral of the Book of Job is the
Bad Karma of the Cattleman.
The pervasive imagery of butchery in
the Book of Job
is a constant reminder or edification
to the Reader
that those who support the butchering
of creatures
created by the all loving Lord of Creatures
should expect to feel their own spirits
butchered by Deity,
as Job does.
Or, in the language used to define the
word Job,
those who are enemies of the creatures,
who support the persecution of these
creatures,
are enemies of the Lord of Creatures,
and should expect to feel "persecuted"
by the Divine.
Our hospitals are filled with cholesterol
addicts,
Most of whom attempt to disassociate
their illness from divine justice.
The Book of Job recognizes that Deity
is always just,
Not only in in giving us our good moods,
our elation and euphoria,
but also in giving us illnesses and
our depression and despair,
in order to show us how we can learn
how to avoid them.
Such is the message of the Book of
Job: those who support the oppression of animals will be oppressed themselves,
as we can see over and over again in
the Book of Job,
wherein Job's suffering is related
to the suffering
and to the butchering of animals.
God as the Lord of Creatures, Pasupati, in Job
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.