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Caxton's scriptural quotations are all closely translated from the "Vulgate"—"Scripturarum editio communis et vulgata"—the Latin version which since the fifth century became the official and authorised text of Western Christendom.
"A religious poem," or "moral apologue," is a just description of the Book of Job; its narrative portions give a dramatic and poetic form to events taken from actual life
Job was a Gentile, not a Jew. This gives a peculiar interest to his story and to the fact of its inclusion among the Hebrew sacred books. It shows that the exclusiveness of the Jews—by which they were sheltered from the corrupting influence of the surrounding idolatry—did not prevent their acknowledging that the protecting hand and saving providence of God were extended over all men alike.
The patience of Job under severe tribulation is referred to by Tobias and by S. James. It has become proverbial. Yet Job gave sufficient evidence of very strong feeling under his trials. It is consoling for the sorely-tried to learn on the authority of Scripture that the patience of a saint is not the same thing as the patience of a stone.