How didn't I know that Marc Chagall had designed a huge tapestry about Job? It was commissioned by the Rehabilitation Center of Chicago; dated 1985, it's one of his last works. Familiar characters from Job's story are on the right and bottom but the upper left is filled by a crowd of people. What's happening? Its inspiration is apparently one of my favorite lines of the text, intriguing and even inspiring in this context:
For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again. And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. (14:7)
Some see the gathering of people as taking the form of a tree!
[Actually, as I learned from a talk by Sebastian Spivey at AAR, the work is anticipated by an oil painting from 1975, now at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Yet there's power in the labor-intensive form of the hope-themed tapestry co-created with weaver Yvette Cauqil-Prince, especially as the Hebrew word for hope is the same as that for thread.
