Job

Job exists as the sole counselor in this event because he encourage his wife even though he goes through more than she goes through and he receives multiple negative monologues from his friends. The rest of the book of Job discusses the miseries of Job’s trials and does not mention Job’s wife again until the last five verses of the book; however this counseling session will parallel the events of Job and focus on the reconciliation of Job’s wife. This counseling session begins after Job’s wife tells him to curse God because at this point she existed at the deepest point of her grief and anger.

At first, the focus on Job at the beginning of the stories tries to depict him as a man who respects God. According to the author, Job is “a man with perfect integrity, who feared God and Avoided evil” (Mitchell 5). As a result, he is constantly scared that either he or his children will commit some sort of crime. This is illustrated when “Job would have them come to be purified” (Mitchell 5). He truly fears the power of God and is constantly worried that he and his children will be punished. Even after he’s tortured by the Accusing Angel, Job still does not retaliate when he tells his wife that “we can accept bad fortune too” (Mitchell 8).

The chapters of Job bring to light God putting his favorite servant in a situation in which he loses a throw other desire to drop in a dalliance with God castigate God himself. It starts to asking price Job dearly to throw in one lot with on to his sexual affair outside of marriage with God.

When Job curses the day that he was born his friend’s reason for being takes a turn. They begin to tell him how the innocent do not suffer but the wicked do. That Job must have sinned and this is why God is doing this to him. I believe even though it was not stated in the story this is still the work of Satan. Instead of physically attacking Job, and taking away possessions he is targeting him mentally. After listening to his friends he challenges them to show him where he has sinned. Job complains about his health and his life in a whole. While Job has not lost his faith he has lost any hope pertaining to his life. He mocks his friends and reaches out to God to present his case. Job maintains his integrity speaking on all the good he has done and evil he has steered clear

But he continues to be loyal to God, in spite of his own wife suggesting to curse God for his suffering. Hearing of his illness, his friends visit Job and they convey their advice. It is at this point where Job curses God, as he cannot handle his pain or his friends and their beliefs that his sin is the cause of his suffering and that he must repent in order to be saved. The following upbraiding proves too much for Job, and he grows sarcastic, impatient, and afraid. He laments the injustice that God lets wicked people prosper while he and countless other innocent people suffer. Job wants to confront God and complain, but he cannot physically find God to do it. He feels such wisdom is hidden from human minds, but he still remains God-fearing. God finally interrupts, calling from a whirlwind and demanding Job to be brave and respond to his questions. Overwhelmed by the encounter, Job acknowledges God’s unlimited power and admits the limitations of his human knowledge. God returns Job’s health, providing him with twice as much property as before, new children, and an extremely long life.

In the beginning of the book we learn that there is an all-powerful God, and there is also The Adversary who is Satan. God allows Satan to test Job to see if he will remain loyal to God. This is something that only the audience knows, and no human, especially Job is ignorant of what’s at play. This is also very important because it ties into the lesson that is being portrayed. In The story all of Job’s friends thought that Job’s suffering was due to some type of evil or sin that Job committed. From the reading we know that Job is very careful to avoid evil, so the advice his friends give him is flawed. I think the lesson here is that we don’t know what is taking place in God’s court, our knowledge is very limited and we should not assume

Throughout the Book of Job, Job displays strength and perseverance even while being faced with extreme hardships such as the death of his loved ones and gruesome physical pain. Readers question God’s whereabouts, his relationship with Satan, and his true intentions while Job is experiencing heartbreak and torture. God’s actions in the Book of Job cause him to be portrayed in a new and unexpected light, a darker one. Some people would consider God’s reasoning for Job’s pain and suffering acceptable, but I am not one of those people.

Job responds again by rebuking his friends for being no help, desiring to plead his case with God, and affirming his situation and despair. Job states very bluntly that God has attack him (Clifford 81).

The book of Job in the Hebrew Bible contains both poetry and prose features in one whole personal account that proposes a universal problem: Why does God allow the good to suffer? Secondary to this universal problem, the underlying question, implicitly stated by Job in a fit of agony, “You will seek me, and I shall be gone.” (Job, p.200, line 47). More explicitly put, there is an unbridled, significant and dependent relationship between God and the mankind he created to roam the earth. The book of Job illustrates this necessary relationship between God and man through metaphor and imagery as a comparison to a hired worker, comparing God to a watcher of man, and repetition of certain phrases.

Humans have been given by God the free will to choose their destiny, find their path in life and purpose, love, and serve God or the opposite, themselves. But because Adam and Eve made the choice to experiment life without God, things got complicated for everybody, suffering and evil came as a result of their rebellion (“Lecture 6,” 2015). The story of Job is a perfect example of a man’s love and faithfulness towards God, a man who served God unconditionally. And because he loved and served God, he became Satan’s target. Satan wanted to demonstrate God that Jobs love towards him was only because He was good to him. So, God allowed Satan to hurt Job, physically, mentally and emotionally, Job lost everything he had, including his children. (“Lecture

The main characters in the Book of Job are Job himself, and his three friends Eliphaz, Baidad and Sophar. The problem facing all of these God-fearing men was the very intensity of what had happened to Job. Remember that he had lost all his considerable possessions, and his ten grown-up children had been swept away in a hurricane. And then to cap it all off his health had been taken away - not just feeling a little below par, but his whole body was covered with painful sores, like having shingles all over the body. See Figure

Job is a book about how does Job react, when all of his properties have been taken away because of the arrangement of God and Satan. The major part of this book is composed by the conversations between Job and his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. The persuasions of his three friends are powerless, compared with Job’s unshakable faith in God.

Job is about the suffering of righteous people. Job was appreciated by God, and the Devil thought

First of all the book of Job comes from the section of the Bible known as the wisdom section or the wisdom books. So obviously chapter three of Job’s literary genre would be wisdom. The main reason it can be described as wisdom is because it has a theological theme and it teaches a lesson through the telling of a person’s personal experiences or through easy to remember sayings. But the only way wisdom can be received is by first fearing the Lord and doing everything possible to follow Him. The lesson or personal experience is exactly what Job went through. People have to be loyal and faithful to God through the good times and bad. It is definitely easy to follow God when everything thing is going great, but the true test of man’s character is what he does during the tough times. In chapter three Job does feel bad for himself and wishes he was never born, but he never once cursed God or blamed him in any way possible. So, as God predicted Job remained faithful to Him even though his life was so terrible that he would rather die than live one more

Commentary: Many people look at this story and think “wow, Job was a man of God and God would still tear everything from Job, God is cruel and mean”. However, if the reading was continued to the ending of the book of Job it would be discovered that Job, similar to the story