There was a certain pious man among the heathen named Job, but he [thought that he had] come into this world only to receive his reward [here], and when the Holy One, blessed be He, brought chastisements upon him, he began to curse and blaspheme, so the Holy One, blessed be He, doubled his reward in this world so as to expel him from the world to come.
B. Baba Batra 15b
qtd. in Judith R. Baskin, “Rabbinic Interpretations of Job,”
in The Voice from the Whirlwind: Interpreting the Book of Job,
ed. Leo G. Perdue & W. Clark Gilpin (Nashville: Abingdon, 1992), 101-9, 107
