Astronomy in the Old Testament #229755

The same author Speaks in another place of three families dwelling in the town of Jabez, renowned for having exercised from father to son the profession of scribe, that is to say, of literature 3. Great was also the reputation of the wise men of Edom, a country inhabited by a people scarcely different from Israel, and long considered by them as brothers. The author of the Book of Job has put into the mouth of five Edomite sages his most profound reflections concerning the origin of evil and universal justice. The wisdom of the Edomites and their prudence in important decisions had passed into a proverb'.