Job's wife

[2] The children born at the end of Job's suffering are to a different wife, who is identified as Dinah, daughter of Jacob.

[5] Abraham Kuyper even suggests that she is Job's last trial: "Satan knew he could use her as an instrument with which to grieve and torture his victim, and for that reason he permitted her to live.

Ilana Pardes appeals to 19:17 in saying that "she too, after all, is a victim of these divine tests in addition to being pained by exposure to his afflictions".

Pardes says, "Much like Eve, Job’s wife spurs her husband to doubt God’s use of divine powers.

Newsom concludes that "Job's wife is the prototypical woman on the margin, whose iconoclastic words provoke defensive condemnation but whose insight serves as an irritant that undermines old complacencies.