Daughters of Job
This is a later piece of art from William Blake's series of illustrations on the book of Job. The Visual Museum contains an earlier piece by Blake that only contains Job and his three daughters. In comparing the two, they both represent the end of Job's journey, when the LORD blesses him and restores his wealth and family bountifully. The earlier piece only shows Job with his three daugters: Jemimah, Keziah, and Keren-Happuch. Now he is pictured with his entire family, yet the three girls still hold an important, central position in the composition. Job 42:15 announces that Job grants his daughters, not just his sons, an inheritance of land. His time of suffering seems to have given Job a new sense of justice implemented by this socially unprecedented gift. His great blessing of wealth fills the background, with flocks of sheep blanketing the ground and what appears to be a castle in the back. Musical instruments hang on the tree for use in worship as Job and his wife are reading what might be meant to be Scripture, and his children kneel with clasped hands in thankfulness.