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The Dialogues between Job and his Friends. The First Cycle
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite said in reply: If one ventures a word with you, will it be too much? But who can hold back his words? See, you have encouraged many; You have strengthened…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Piety, Punishment, Monotheism, Death, Sin

Categories:

Poetry, Biblical Poetry, Wisdom Literature, Literature
The Dialogues between Job and his Friends. The Second Cycle
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Zophar the Naamathite said in reply: [ . . . ] Do you not know this, that from time immemorial, Since man was set on earth, The joy of the wicked has been brief, The happiness of the…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Piety, Sin, Monotheism, Wisdom, Death

Categories:

Poetry, Biblical Poetry, Wisdom Literature, Literature
Three Poems
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This is November Season of mills. Wind of the black early morning services. Cemetery And thousandnightliness Of the childish little candles, And their fear. Trudging now Through the…

Contributor:

Franz Werfel

Places:

Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Adolescence, Community, Death, War, Sin

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Magdalen
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All things I can endure, save one. The bare, blank room where is no sun; The parcelled hours; the pallet hard; The dreary faces here within; The outer women’s cold regard; The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…

Contributor:

Amy Levy

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1884

Subjects:

Christianity, Women, Sin, Prostitution, Death

Categories:

Literature, Poetry