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| A deep respect and reverence of God; and important theme in the Elohist fragments and in the wisdom literature |
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| A righteous man whom God tested by disaster and personal suffering; in the end, God restored his wealth and family. The book of Job, considered a work of wisdom literature, contains the story |
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| The mythological sea monster of prophetic literature and the book of Job, also attested in Ugaritic literature |
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| The literary device of portraying an idea or nonhuman object as a human being |
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| A short, pithy saying in frequent and widespread use that expresses a basic truth or practical precept; the book of Proverbs is one of the Writings and is classified as wisdom literature |
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| The outlook found in Deuteronomic and wisdom literature that a supreme being punishes wrongdoers for their bad deeds |
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| In the old testament, a member of the Divine Council who challenged God in the books of Job and Zechariah |
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| A term that denotes the issue of God's justice in relation to the problem of human suffering, used often in discussions of the book of Job relating to the attempt to justify God in the face of evil |
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| A comprehensive term used in reference to the distinctive wisdom literature and wisdom outlook of Israelite, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian cultures; suggest a perspective on understanding the world dominated by the use of reason, a search for order, and teaching moral behavior |
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| In the Hebrew Bible, those books of a predominantly didactic or philosophical cast; in the Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon belong to the didactic tradition of wisdom literature |
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