Job hears from four messengers about the calamity that has befallen him. Behind him is his wife, holding her handkerchief in front of her face. The landscape shows Jobs cattle and camels being stolen, lightning striking his shepherds and cattle, and the house, in which Job's children held a feast, collapsing in the storm. Print is part of a series on the eight Beatitudes of Christ and illustrates the Beatitude: Blessed are the poor in spirit. On the steps a stone with this text from Mat. 5:3 in Latin. Below in the margin a verse in Latin about the beatitude. Job hears the bad news from four messengers Blessed are the poor in spirit The eight beatitudes , print maker: Harmen Jansz Muller, (mentioned on object), Maarten van Heemskerck, (mentioned on object), publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1564 - 1568 and/or 1643 - 1646, paper, engraving, h 215 mm × w 250 mm