Comparing Job And J. B. The Book Of Job

All sufferings need to be comforted just like a wild fire that needs to be extinguished. Therefore, in the story of Job, the Three Comforters come to Job and comforted him hoping that he would get a better sense

The theme of the Book of Job is the perseverance of the human spirit. Job loses everything but he does not lose his faith in God. “Job refuses to curse God” (Book). Job has not done anything to deserve this, but it is a test from God and Satan to see if Job is actually as

     Job is a man very limited by God. As illustrated, he has only a negligible amount of agency to begin with. By the time God and Satan finish with him, he has virtually no control over his own life. The fragment of agency he does cling to is his ability to choose whether or not to curse God. No one, except himself, could prevent Job from cursing God. Yet, he refuses to curse God, even though He is responsible for his suffering.

Later in the book Job’s friends tell him that he must have sinned very badly in order to have such terrible things to happen to him, Job’s

The Book of Job dives into the life of a blessed and faithful man in which his life takes an unsuspecting turn. From the loss of property and loved ones, to only be accused of wickedness by friends as the explanation of this calamity that has befallen Job. Author J. Gerald Janzen, whose personal struggle has opened a corridor that creates a connection with the life of Job takes us on a walk with Job through his journey from prosperity, to loss and bitterness then into the presence of God. At the Scent of Water will open our mind to the possibility of hope and grace to anyone who has gone through suffering in the past or is going through times of difficulty in the presence.

Job was an upright man, without sin or fault. He was God's favored, and because of this, was granted wealth and progeny beyond the dreams of most mortal men.

Troubles in life sometimes seem to go against everything a person knows about the world, and results in either a stronger or weaker worldview. Paton compares Kumalo’s life to the story of Job in the Bible to show how people can survive misfortunes with their worldviews still intact. Though troubles overtake people’s lives, they can overcome them through faith and love. To elaborate on how people can continue “to believe” even amidst trials, Paton writes, “But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering” (261). The positive actions of others can renew a person’s faith in humankind when one sees the darker parts of human character. To most, one small sign of goodness in a world of heartache and misery can give them hope to carry on. Consequently, Paton uses small acts of kindness throughout the novel to show how although people can doubt the humanity of the world in times of darkness, light always appears to restore

The book of Job is a book that tells a story about a reach man who lived in Uz. The book is filled with the suffering of Job. Job was a righteous man who feared God but lost everything he has got including his health. And he suffered financially, relationship wise and also with different kinds of diseases. The author of the book then tried to show in a poetic dialogue the reaction of job himself and the reaction of his friends to the disaster. And in the last chapters we God communicate with Job.

Job, known as J.B., in Archibald MacLeish’s J.B. is first introduced to the reader as a successful businessman, who, like Job in the Book of Job, is upright, fears God, and shuns evil. However, unlike the careful, and at times paranoid, Job of the Book of Job, J.B. seems confident in God’s love and grace. In fact, J.B. preaches to his wife about his faith in God’s blessings, saying, “Never since I learned to tell my shadow from my shirt, not once, not for a watch-tick, have I doubted God was on my side, was good to me.” (J.B., p. 35, pp. 3) J.B.’s faith in God’s justice and grace is put to the test when his children are killed in increasingly tragic ways; unlike Job’s suffering in the Book of Job, J.B.’s suffering is drawn out. J.B. loses

“The book of job” is poetic literacy, filled with knowledge, wisdom and inspiration. The book of job tackle very deep subject matter one all human being tends to do at some point of our life as “why righteous people suffer”, how god do nothing. In chapter 38 – 42 is perfect example of it. The author uses poetic dialoged between god and job to dig into the subject matter, illustrate how little, selfish we human being are. In Job demands god to answer the question. In response to job question the Lord spoke out of the storm. God reply to job, who is you to question me I will ask you question and you, shall answer me. (38.4)“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, job realize that did doesn’t have enough knowledge nor

Job, “blameless and upright”, is described as a man who follows God and turns away from evil showing that he tenaciously fulfils his duties to God and makes it a priority that he lives by (Job 1.1). He is challenged in a bet between God and Satan that he will only be faithful to God when everything is going well for him; God chooses to test Satan’s theory (Job. 1.8-12). Job endures great suffering, but what makes him a pious man is that ultimately he shows the depth of his faith in God, despite the harsh suffering he endures. A paragon of his faithfulness to God is shown when he is given four sets of bad news: his oxen, donkeys, sheep, camels, servants and all 10 of his children were killed or stolen (Job 1.15-19). After hearing the news, Job “fell on the ground and worshipped”, saying that he “came from [his] mother 's womb

Job is not only defined by his wealth and his family, but also by his character. This is the second description we get of Job after we find that he is not an Israelite is that he is blameless and upright. This is a pretty generalized statement about what a good guy is, and doesn’t really give the reader any insight into how in particular Job is good. This idea is a direct contrast from the idea that Job is different from other holy people. It seeks to create Job as a man that could be any man. He is unlike the character Noah who built an arc for God or Moses who freed the Israelites, in that fact that he is righteous without being extraordinary. In that way, Job becomes somewhat more attainable as a regular human being. The next characteristic of Job that is provided in the prologue is that he “turned from evil” (1:1). This gives a more specific understanding of what Job does in order to make himself righteous. It indicates that evil was not absent from Job’s life, but rather that Job chose to turn away from the evil in his life. This once again seems to indicate that righteous is not something that comes from Job’s situation and thus is applicable to every man. The final descriptor of Job’s character is the most relevant to this discussion on the afterlife; Job was God-fearing. This is seemingly highly important to the over Job as this is something that Satan’s key question “Does Job fear God for nought?” in verse nine of chapter one. God-fearing

Angie: We see quite clearly that Eliphaz prove himself as a false comforter to use a false tongue, he attempted mislead Job to false conclusion, he misrepresented Jehovah God as a harsh Judge who punished Job with sicknesses because he must have sinne . However, Job wasn't deceive because in Job 16:2,3 he likely consider Eliphaz as a false comforter. So that is what Job's reaction.

I think it’s safe to say we have all heard the saying, “what goes around, comes around.” Most people believe in some form of retribution, most commonly karma, that there are punishments and rewards for our actions. Without this retributive theology, there is chaos in the world. Contrary to what most believe, God, as portrayed in the book of Job, does not have complete control over everything that happens. In the book, Job is a righteous, very fortunate man. After he faces great tragedy, he and his friends discuss why it might have happened to him. Job’s friends argue that he must have done something to deserve to suffer. Job argues that he has remained “blameless and upright.” He argues that God doesn’t work on account of the Pentateuchal Doctrine of Retribution. According to God, there are things that humans can not understand about the universe. There is chaos that not even he can control. There are many different theories on God and the message that the book of Job is sending. While God argues that chaos reigns, He is the main cause of the chaos because he doesn’t try to prevent it from happening.

By analyzing the contextual usage of the word comfort from literatures on theology, business, engineering, society, and nursing, attributes of comfort as well as antecedent to and outcomes from comfort were found. In the Old Testament, Bromiley (1976) described that the words ‘comfort’ are used for 15 Hebrew terms and also occur in free renderings. Mostly, however, they are used for nāham, and this makes ‘comfort’ the main sense, especially in bereavement which is evident in the writings of the Holy Bible in Genesis 24:67. King James Version (1962) wrote, ‘And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah 's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother 's death’. The verb in particular also refers to the comfort that God gives his people under his judgment, or individuals in temptation.