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Job’s infamous friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, look on sullenly as Job launches into a speech defending himself against their accusations: “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble …” (Job 14:1). Gustave Doré, the 19th-century French artist from Alsace, caught Victorian Europe’s imagination with dramatic Bible engravings such as this one, which was first published in a French Bible in 1865.