Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40098 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iob'sjob

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 95 times in 44 works
Consistency: 59.7% (95 of 159)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: job's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: job's (64)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (95 changes in 44 works, 59.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 95)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in the first place, to be intirely devoted and subject to God. That was Iob'sJob Character, One that feared God, and eschewed Evil, Job 1. 11. To do that we do …
With rule
… in the first place, to be intirely devoted and subject to God. That was Iob'sJob Character, One that feared God, and eschewed Evil, Job 1. 11. To do that we do …
Thomas Manton · Discourses to Promote Peace and Holiness · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… often is the Wife a Thorn in the side of her Husband? such was Iob'sJob Wife to him; the Child an Heartbreak to his Father? such was Absalom to …
With rule
… often is the Wife a Thorn in the side of her Husband? such was Iob'sJob Wife to him; the Child an Heartbreak to his Father? such was Absalom to …
Samuel Slater · Funeral Sermon of John Reynolds · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God puts it into Satan's Power, to be instrumental, herein, for the Trial of Iob'sJob Patience, and carrying on the Work of his Cross upon him, in a Conducibleness …
With rule
… God puts it into Satan's Power, to be instrumental, herein, for the Trial of Iob'sJob Patience, and carrying on the Work of his Cross upon him, in a Conducibleness …
George Sikes · A Wakening Call · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reach, wee may see Rev. 20.2. More particularly; hee could no… touch so much as Iob'sJob body or substance, no not one of his servants, nor one limb of their …
With rule
… reach, wee may see Rev. 20.2. More particularly; hee could no… touch so much as Iob'sJob body or substance, no not one of his servants, nor one limb of their …
Richard Younge · A Christian Library · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… press'd to Death with number, not with weight; but this was the Logick of Iob'sJob Friends, who proceeded eternally upon an Ignoratio Elenchi, Job 6. 25. what doth your Arguing Reprove …
With rule
… press'd to Death with number, not with weight; but this was the Logick of Iob'sJob Friends, who proceeded eternally upon an Ignoratio Elenchi, Job 6. 25. what doth your Arguing Reprove …
Vincent Alsop · Vindication of the Faithful Rebuke to a False Report · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tossed with the terror thereof, and made to mourn and weep heavily. Such doth Iob'sJob condition seem to be in his youth, as it is described, Iob 29. but afterward …
With rule
… tossed with the terror thereof, and made to mourn and weep heavily. Such doth Iob'sJob condition seem to be in his youth, as it is described, Iob 29. but afterward …
David Dickson · Sacred Therapy · p. 295 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet you read, Prov. 24. 16. … just man falleth seven times, and riseth up a…in: Iob'sJob Friends were good men, yet he …lls them, These ten times have ye reproached …
With rule
… yet you read, Prov. 24. 16. … just man falleth seven times, and riseth up a…in: Iob'sJob Friends were good men, yet he …lls them, These ten times have ye reproached …
John Flavel · The Touchstone of Sincerity · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live. So if Iob'sJob friends will have God to forgive their sin in censuring Iob so uncharitably, they …
With rule
… a Prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live. So if Iob'sJob friends will have God to forgive their sin in censuring Iob so uncharitably, they …
Joseph Mede · Works · p. 307 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.