patience of Job

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Meaning: (idiomatic)A great amount of patience.Synonyms:patience of an angel,patience of a saint,patience of Mother Teresa1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,James5:11:Beholde, wee count them happie which endure. Ye haue heard of thepatience of Iob, and haue ſeene the end of the Loꝛd: that the Loꝛd is very pitifull and of tender mercie.2004March 30, “Takes two to quango”, inAlan Rusbridger, editor,The Guardian‎[1], London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon13 September 2014:The interference, some of it on a daily basis, that LSC staff have had to endure from the department's civil servants would have tried thepatience of Job.

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