A scolding; so called from the patriarch Job.
“Jobation … . means a long, dreary homily, and has reference to the tedious rebukes inflicted on the patriarch Job by his too obliging friends.”—G.A. Sala: (Echoes), Sept. 6, 1884.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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