“Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,”
And Job again took up his discourse and said, introducing Job's penultimate speech, in which he will recount his past blessedness and present desolation to establish the dramatic reversal that characterizes his condition. The formula again took up suggests that this discourse follows the wisdom poem and represents a different kind of address, more autobiographical and accusatory than the wisdom instruction. The structure of Job taking up discourse multiple times establishes his narrative authority and the importance assigned to his voice. This introduction marks the final sustained argument Job will make before God himself speaks.
Church Fathers on Job 29:1
l. Moreover Job continued his parable, and said. 15. For because a parable is a name for a likeness, it plainly appears that through a form of exterior words he speaks mysteries, who with reference to speaking is recorded to have ‘taken up a parable.’ For when he relates his own circumstances, he is telling all the things that are to come to Holy Church, and through the thing that he himself undergoes he points out what she should undergo. But sometimes he so mixes the words…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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