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Show i. I THE ROMANCE OF WORDS "JOB." THE connection between Job, the Biblical personification personifica-tion of patience, and the word i "Job" commonly applied to a piece of work, Is cleverly worked out by Southey In his book 'The Doctor." "A Job In the working or operative op-erative sense Is evidently something some-thing which It requires patience to perform, In the physical or moral sense, as when, for ex-ample, ex-ample, In the language of the vulgar, a personal hurt or misfortune mis-fortune Is called a 'bad Job,' It Is something which requires patience pa-tience on the part of the public to endure and In all these senses the word may be traced to Job, who Is the proverbial exemplar ex-emplar of this virtue." Sheridan, whose definitions are always as amusing as they are direct, states that "whenever "when-ever any emolument, profit, sal-nry sal-nry or honor Is conferred on any person not deserving it, that Is a 'Job.' " From .which It would appear that It Is not the jobholder job-holder that emulates the patience pa-tience of Job, but the public. (Copyright) i - " O |