Selections: Blake's The Book of Job

All images are from William Blake. The Book of Job. New York: Dover, 1988.

Figure 1. Linnell Set no. 8. Job's Despair (Job 3:3).

Figure 2. Linnell Set no. 3. Job's Sons and Daughters Destroyed (Job 1:19).

Figure 3. Linnell Set no. 10. Job Rebuked by his Friends (Job 19:21).

Figure 4. Linnell Set no. 13. The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind (Job 38:1).

Figure 5. Linnell Set no. 17. The Vision of Christ [Christ blessing Job does not exist in this Old Testament Book].

Figure 6. Linnell Set no. 18. Job's Sacrifice (Job 42:1).

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