Testament of Job

When most of the comforters choose to listen to God's voice, they decide to taunt the one remaining individual who still laments Job's fate.

One passage concerns multicoloured cords for women to put around their breasts to enable them to sing in the language of the angels.

This has led several scholars to suggest that the Montanists may have edited parts of the Testament of Job, adding sections such as these.

[citation needed] The letter ends with a reference to life after death; "It is written that he will rise up with those whom the Lord will reawaken.

At the end of the 5th century, the Testament of Job was relegated to the apocrypha by the Gelasian Decree, concerning canonical and noncanonical books.

Subsequently, the Testament of Job was ignored by Roman Catholic writers until it was published in 1833 in the series edited by Angelo Mai (Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio Vol.