Editing Book of Job (section)

===Modern revisions===

Job exists in a number of forms: the Hebrew [[Masoretic Text]], which underlies many modern Bible translations; the Greek [[Septuagint]] made in Egypt in the last centuries BCE; and Aramaic and Hebrew manuscripts found among the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]].{{sfn|Seow|2013|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOn3ZK2n0UUC&pg=PA1-16 1–16]}}

In the Latin [[Vulgate]], the [[New Revised Standard Version]], and in [[Protestant Bible]]s, it is placed after the [[Book of Esther]] as the first of the [[poetic books]].{{sfn|Hartley|1988|p=3}} In the Hebrew Bible, it is located within the [[Ketuvim]]. John Hartley notes that in [[Sephardic]] manuscripts, the texts are ordered as [[Psalms]], Job, and [[Book of Proverbs|Proverbs]], but in [[Ashkenazic]] texts, the order is Psalms, Proverbs, and then Job.{{sfn|Hartley|1988|p=3}} In the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[Jerusalem Bible]], it is described as the first of the "wisdom books" and follows the two [[books of the Maccabees]].<ref>Jerusalem Bible (1966), ''Introduction to the Wisdom Books'', p. 723</ref>