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Job Hears the Bad News from Messengers
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Job Hears the Bad News from Messengers

Philips Galle · 1563 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Four messengers come to Job to tell him that his flocks have been stolen and struck by lightning and that his house has collapsed and his children are buried under the rubble. After Job has heard the bad news from the messengers, he tears his clothes and falls to the ground.

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Credit lineJob hoort het slechte nieuws vanboodschappers. 1563. Philips Galle. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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