Job was a blameless and upright man who lost his children, his wealth, and his health in a single storm of suffering — and worshipped: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. His book is the Bible's deepest wrestling with why the innocent suffer.
Job questioned God fiercely and honestly, and God answered not with explanations but with his own overwhelming presence — and vindicated Job over his tidy comforters. Through it all Job could say, I know that my redeemer liveth. His name became a byword for patient endurance.
Job is a short, strong, ancient name — increasingly chosen for its quiet dignity and its story of faith that survives everything.
Variants & nicknames
Jobe
Job in the Bible
And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.