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Patience of Job context of the distribution of income and wealth among the population. Parkinson’s Law – (шутл.) закон Паркинсона, согласно которому объём работы растёт пропорционально отпущенному на него времени This law claims that work tends to be extended till the time allowed for its completion. The adage was first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as the first sentence of a humorous essay published in “The Economist” in 1955: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. It was later reprinted together with other essays in the book “Parkinson’s Law: The Pursuit of Progress” (1958). He derived the dictum from his extensive experience in the British Civil Service. He explains the growth of bureaucracies by two forces: An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals and Officials make work for each other. When in 1986, Alessandro Natta (Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party) complained about the swelling bureaucracy in Italy, Mikhail Gorbachev responded that “Parkinson’s Law works everywhere.” Patience of Job – терпение Иова; долготерпение, ангельское терпение; адское терпение If something requires the patience of Job, it requires a great amount of patience. Job is the central character of the “Book of Job” in the Hebrew Bible. Also, Job is listed as a prophet of God in the Koran. The phrase refers to Job’s refusal to condemn God when Satan was allowed to destroy his family and his livestock, essentially turning him from a rich man into a childless pauper overnight. Instead he entered into a series of dialogs that culminated in a fascinating conversation with God Himself. In the end, Job saw the error in his ways, sought forgiveness, and everything was restored. The main idea running through the “Book of Job” is that when we justify ourselves, by saying that we don’t deserve to experience catastrophic loss, we condemn God, 127