Zitidos

Also known as: Job's unnamed wife (Section 054) · Role: Job's wife · First appears: Job'S Suffering

During Job’s suffering, Zitidos advised Job to pray to God for death so that he could leave as an upright man. After sharing her bread with him, she was dismissed from her water-carrier service. To keep Job from starving, she cut off her hair and bought bread.

In The Four Friends, Eliphaz placed his royal purple mantle around her shoulders to cover her rags. Job revealed that their deceased children were with the Ruler of heaven, crowned with glory. Zitidos later returned to her master’s house, where she died of exhaustion beside the cattle manger. During the years of his trials, after her death, Job married Dinah, his second wife.

Relationship record

Life events

• Job's wife was dismissed from her water-carrier service after sharing her bread with Job.(Job'S Suffering)
  • “and when her master learnt that she shared her bread with Job, he dismissed her.”
• Job's wife cut off her hair and bought bread to keep Job from starving.(Job'S Suffering)
  • With: Job
  • “To keep her husband from starving, she cut off her hair, and purchased bread with it.”
• Eliphaz gave Zitidos his royal purple mantle to cover her rags.(The Four Friends)
  • With: Eliphaz
  • “Eliphaz, however, took his royal mantle of purple, and laid it about the shoulders of the poor woman.”
• Job revealed that his deceased children were with the Ruler of heaven, crowned with glory.(The Four Friends)
  • With: Job
  • “they beheld his children next to the Ruler of heaven, with crowns of glory upon their heads.”
• Zitidos returned to her master’s house after being away against his will.(The Four Friends)
  • “And she returned to the house of her master, whence she had absented herself for some time against his will.”
• Zitidos died of exhaustion beside the cattle manger.(The Four Friends)
  • “In the evening she lay down to sleep next to the manger for the cattle, but she never rose again, she died there of exhaustion.”
• After Zitidos died, Job married Dinah as his second wife.(Job Restored)
  • With: Job Dinah
  • “Zitidos having died during the years of his trials, he married a second wife, Dinah, the daughter of Jacob”

Job'S Suffering

• married with Job “His wife, fearful that he would not bear his horrible suffering with steadfastness, advised him to pray to God for death, that lie might be sure of going hence an upright man.”
• employer: Job's unnamed employer (Section 054) “Her lot was bitter, indeed, for she had had to take service as a water-carrier with a common churl, and when her master learnt that she shared her bread with Job, he dismissed her.”

The Four Friends

• married with Job “While the three kings were conversing thus with Job, his wife Zitidos made her appearance clad in rags, and she threw herself at the feet of her husband's friends, and amid tears she spoke, saying: ‘O Eliphaz, and ye other friends of Job, remember what I was in other days, and how I am now changed, coming before you in rags and tatters.’”

Job Restored

• married with Job “Zitidos having died during the years of his trials, he married a second wife, Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and she bore him seven sons and three daughters.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.