Did Job keep the Sabbath?

[JM]

Is there evidence in Job for Sabbath keeping?

Thank you.

 

[LiturgyInDMinor]

Job is described by God Himself in Job 1:8 and 2:3 as perfect and upright, fearing God and eschewing evil, a man like whom there was no one else in the earth. Job was so careful about the possibility of sin that we read in Job 1:5 that he offered burnt offerings for his children after they had feasts because they might have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. He did this continually. Here was a man who truly feared and served God. Such a man certainly would have kept God's Sabbath. I say this as assumption in the end but I believe he did.

Thanks for listening.

 

[JM]

Thank you, I ask because it's often assumed that before the nation of Israel left Egypt they kept a Sabbath, surely, Job would have if the Sabbath is a moral law...but that's the thing...it's assumed.

I'm looking for something more concrete.

Thank you.

j

 

[green wolverine]

The other night when I was reading the Bible, I read part of Job and got thinking that I wasn't sure who wrote it so I read part of the intro pages. According to whoever wrote them [it's a NASB Open Bible I got in the early '90s], a lot of scholars think Job lived around the time of Abraham as he acted as his family's priest and whatnot. If that is the case, I would assume he didn't keep the Sabbath as it hadn't been given yet. I've never read anything about the patriarchs keeping the Sabbath....

 

[JM]

Thanks green, that would also be my assumption...