The Jewish artist Egon Marc Lövith is one of the survivors of the Dachau camp. The tragic experience becomes definite in the artist's work, through subjects extracted from the Old Testament, as in the case of the painting titled Job.

The biblical character is deprived of his wealth, family, and health in order to test his faith. Despite the terrible torments he is subjected to - a fact illustrated in Lövith's work by the crouched position of the character and the choice of a composition that makes the edges of the picture seem to constrain the character, as a burden - Job managed to keep his faith.

Job's tragic destiny is marked by the conflict between faith and peace, namely resignation and resentment, symbolized by the "bet" between God and the devil as a result of which everything is taken from Job, in order to reveal the true part to which he belongs. In this work, the two forms of the human body, the blue one, well-contoured, turned upwards, as well as the faceless yellow one, lost in the background and with hands raised in despair, can be seen as the symbolic hypostases of that inner conflict.

In several of his works, Lövith uses clear and clean contours and fairly flattened surfaces of color, but in the work of Job, one can observe an uneven, oppressive, but more expressive touch, especially in the case of the purple lines of the drapery, created by spilled color on the painting. That portion could be a reference to the blue-purple striped uniforms that concentration camp inmates were required to wear.