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Apolytikion

On beholding the riches of Job's virtues, the enemy of

the righteous contrived to despoil them; and though he

cast down the tower of the Saint's body, he could not plunder the wealth of his spirit, for he found the soul of

that blameless one to be fully armed; but as for me, he

hath stripped me and led me captive away. Hasten,

then, before the end, rescue me from the wily one, O Saviour, and save me.

Kontakion

Thou wast shown forth as blameless, true, God-fearing, just, and sanctified, O thou much-suffering Prophet, all-glorious servant of God, most righteous Job; by thy

valiant endurance and thy patience thou gavest

instruction to the world. For this cause we all honour

and praise thine all-holy memory.