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Excerpt from Commentary on the Book of Job
I will praise the lord Of Wisdom. Like our book Of Job, it belonged, therefore, to a wisdom literature. It is clearly a copy of a story older than the time of Assurbanipal, for part of an Older list of kings also found in his library constitutes a commentary upon a part of it.
According to this story, a high Official or king, Of the Babylonian city of Nippur, named tabi-utul-bel (a man whose date and place in history are as yet unknown to us), had been very god-fearing and prosperous, but was smitten, as though he had been a Wicked man, with a terrible disease, which all the priests and magicians were unable to assuage. This disaster occurred after he had passed the allotted time of life. The poem describes the sufferings very vividly. Tabi - utul-bel says.
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