Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable/Jobation

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Joba′tion. A scolding; so called from the patriarch Job.

Jobation . . . means a long, dreary homily, and has reference to the tedious rebukes inflicted on the patriarch Job by his too obliging friends."—G. A. Sala: (Echoes), Sept. 6, 1884.