English Idioms About “Religion”
Idiom: As patient as Job
Meaning: If someone is as patient as Job, they are very patient. The person who shows great endurance through all sorts of trials is said to have the patience of Job. This idiom is a simile related to the religious figure Job mentioned as a prophet in all Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ones, his health and all his property. His struggle and his patience to understand his situation leads him to get a reward from God restoring his health, doubling his original wealth and giving him a lot of children and grandchildren. Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is beset with hideous and dreadful events that bereft him of his loved by
Example: If you want to work with that temperamental woman you must be as patient as Job.