Editing Marduk (section)

=== Ludlul bel nemeqi ===
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Also known as the "Babylonian Job,{{sfn|Oshima|2014|p=3}}" the poem describes the narrator's suffering caused by Marduk's anger, causing him to lose his job and to experience hostility from his friends and family. Diviners were incapable of helping him and his personal protective spirits and gods also did not come to help. He claims that nobody understood the actions of the gods, and despite the narrator's protests of innocence and that he had always been pious to the gods and never abandoned him, he quickly became ill and was on death's bed. Then, in a series of dreams, he met a young man, an incantation priest that purified him, a young woman with a godlike appearance who came to say that his suffering had ended, and an incantation priest from Babylon. Afterwards, the narrator praises Marduk's mercy{{sfn|Oshima|2014|p=11}} which was the main point of the text despite the expressions of Marduk's anger.{{sfn|Oshima|2014|p=9}}