james and sirach on thursday may dave davis writes i m leaning sirach is more directly referenced by james than job or ruth is in any nt verse i ve seen it would help if you mentioned chapter and verse from sirach and from james job he taketh the wise in their craftiness seems to be quoted in corinthians james you have heard of the patience of job while not a quote implies that james and his listeners are familiar with a story of a man named job who exhibited exemplary patience it is possible that the story they know is not that found in the hebrew bible but rather another similar and related story one has the same problem with direct quotes again matthew boaz begat obed of ruth tells us that matthew knew a story about a woman named ruth who married a man called boaz and became the ancestor of david since ruth is not mentioned in the ot outside the book of ruth it seems likely that matthew was familiar with the book and respected it and thought ruth important enough to be one of the few women mentioned in the genealogy references like this do not prove that the nt writer considered his ot source inspired or inerrant or canonical but neither do direct quotes yours james kiefer
