poor as Job
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The Book of Job depicts the eponymous wealthy and pious landowner as losing all his possessions and becoming afflicted with various ailments and misfortunes, as a test of his faith by God.
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poor as Job (not comparable)
- (simile) Extremely poor, destitute.
- 1804, Maria Edgeworth, "The Will", Popular Tales, 1813, Paraclete Potter, page 101.
- Sir Plantagenet's son is as poor as Job; so she must have recourse to Marvel; and, if she gives him proper encouragement, he'll pay the money in a trice.
- 1804, Maria Edgeworth, "The Will", Popular Tales, 1813, Paraclete Potter, page 101.
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