Theology of the Book of Job: Part 3- Job's Wife

Doc Ryan takes a look at the role that the wife of Job plays in
the book.     Did she leave Job because of
all the sufferings?  Did she die?  Was there a second
wife? We know that Job’s wealth and family were greatly restored
and increased to him as we read in Job 42:12-13, “So the LORD
blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had
fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand
yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. He had also seven sons
and three daughters.”     The traditional
interpretation is that she is urging Job to curse God, The Hebrew
verb barak occurs just over 325 times in the Old Testament, most
frequently translated “to bless” in the sense of giving benefits.
When Job’s wife said to “barak God and die” her words could be
translated “give thanks to God, then die!” It could also mean to
knel down, If this meaning of barak is applied, Job’s wife would
have urged him to “kneel down before God, then die!”
  What about the Testament of Job? The apocryphal
Divrei Iyov shares the not only the name of job’s first wife
Uzit, but also tells of Job’s second wife, Dinah daughter of
Jacob, who bore him his sons and daughters when the Lord blessed
him, at the end of the book of Job.