"poor as Job" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The Book of Job depicts the eponymous wealthy and pious landowner as losing all his possessions and becoming afflicted with various ailments and misfortunes, as a test of his faith by God.",
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      "expansion": "poor as Job (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1804, Maria Edgeworth, \"The Will\", Popular Tales, 1813, Paraclete Potter, page 101.\nSir Plantagenet's son is as poor as Job; so she must have recourse to Marvel; and, if she gives him proper encouragement, he'll pay the money in a trice."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Extremely poor, destitute."
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        [
          "poor",
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        [
          "destitute",
          "destitute"
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      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Extremely poor, destitute."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Job's news"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "poor as a church mouse"
        },
        {
          "word": "poor as Job's turkey"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "zo arm als Job"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "köyhä kuin kirkonrotta"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pauvre comme Job"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "biedny jak Hiob"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Book of Job"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poor as Job"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The Book of Job depicts the eponymous wealthy and pious landowner as losing all his possessions and becoming afflicted with various ailments and misfortunes, as a test of his faith by God.",
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      "expansion": "poor as Job (not comparable)",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Job's news"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1804, Maria Edgeworth, \"The Will\", Popular Tales, 1813, Paraclete Potter, page 101.\nSir Plantagenet's son is as poor as Job; so she must have recourse to Marvel; and, if she gives him proper encouragement, he'll pay the money in a trice."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely poor, destitute."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poor",
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        [
          "destitute",
          "destitute"
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      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Extremely poor, destitute."
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        "not-comparable"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Book of Job"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "poor as a church mouse"
    },
    {
      "word": "poor as Job's turkey"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "zo arm als Job"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "köyhä kuin kirkonrotta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "pauvre comme Job"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "biedny jak Hiob"
    }
  ],
  "word": "poor as Job"
}