Job Reflection Essay

     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.

After these tragic events occurred one reads later in Job, that Satan began to attack Job’s health and Job continues to worship God. In chapter two of Job, Job’s wife asks Job, “Do you still hold fat your integrity?” In the ESV study bible the commentary suggests that the content of her question is significant for how it relates to the heavenly dialogue of God and Satan. She asks Job a rhetorical question that the doubts the sensibility of the very thing that God find commendable about Job, his consistent integrity. The latter part of verse nine expresses the anger that Job’s wife is feeling, she answers her own question saying, “Curse God and die.” Job’s wife lives in a culture where women did not have opportunity to obtain success in a

One of the things that we learn from the full complement of all of the revelation of God’s word is that God does not treat us adversarially, as we are his children. He may permit us to experience suffering and hardship in this life. But, those things are not indications, in and of themselves, of God’s displeasure and that’s all that Job could see. But, we can have a strong faith; we can have a more informed faith to know that that is not a necessary imprint. That we don’t have to look at bad things in our life and say oh, God must be displeased with me, that is not necessarily true.

The thing that catches my attention is what God says before that. God says, “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath” (Ch.42, Pg.82) This quote shows that God is disappointed with these men and they didn’t perform like Job did. The Lord had expectations of these men, and they failed him. Therefore, he makes them supply offerings to Job. I feel that God is proving a point to people that faith and courage can lead to good things. Throughout the time, Job has been put through many hard obstacles. God took everything away from him instantly including his family. To me, losing my family would have to be the most devastating thing that could happen. I once had an incident regarding family and it broke me down. During that time in my life, I almost lost faith in God. I was so confused and upset at why certain things were happening and I had no answer. It seemed like God wasn’t looking out for me and it seemed like I couldn’t trust him. However, I remained faithful to the Lord because I knew that he could make things

In the book of Job and Medea by Euripides, the main characters experience an abundance of suffering. In Job, the main character, Job, is being tested by God and Satan in order to prove his commitment to God. In Medea, the main character, Medea, is suffering from her husband leaving her and their two children. Jobs suffering is different from Medea’s because his suffering is the result of Satan attacking his faith and health. Medea suffers from injustice to women, and manipulation by her husband, Jason.

God never condemns Job’s doubt or despair . . . He actually seems to appreciate it.

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.

In this verse, Job was praying to God but the message in this passage is telling us that only he has the true authority to choose when we should live or die. Our times are in his hands, the powers of nature act under him; in him we live and move. We should therefore humble ourselves before God, and cast ourselves wholly on the mercy of God, through our Divine Surety. He has just given utterance to an intense longing for a life beyond the grave. Job’s friends tried to help Job, but their advice was wrong. They did not think that God would allow an innocent person to suffer so they thought that Job was guilty. They guessed that Job had done a lot of bad things but that wasn’t the case. God was merely trying to prove to the

I think there is a good lesson here for those who provide pastoral care to the suffering. And maybe that is the lesson here. I do not believe that God causes our sufferings, but that God can use our sufferings to bring forth the Kingdom of God. For I believe that God stretches out wide God’s arms desiring to be in relationship with all. At the end of the Job narrative we find an image of reconciliation where Job is open to seeing God differently receiving the fullness that God is in all of God’s mystery and

At the end of the book, Job is feeling very upset because his friends have been bashing on him and accusing him of a sin that he didn’t commit. He begins questioning God because he believes that God is all good and he doesn’t punish those who have been good. He only punishes those who have committed a crime. Job begins questioning God because he wonders why the good suffer but the wicked get to live a good life. And Job knows that he has always been good and he is being unjustly punished by God.

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.

The Book of Job from the Old Testament is a story in which an attempt is made by the Hebrew author to justify the unjustifiable actions of a seemingly malevolent god. The questioning by Job as to why the "good" must suffer is induced by a childish challenge, put forth by Satan and accepted by God, to test the loyalty of Job toward God. The uncharacteristic actions of a supposedly omni benevolent God must be justified in the eyes of his followers, and in the process of doing so, God is made to look like nothing more than an omnipotent child.

The Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible is characterized by the misery of a faithful servant of God, and how it relates to this character's ability to praise God. Job is an unwaveringly loyal and righteous subject of God, blessed with immense wealth and a beautiful family. One day God boasts to Satan of the innate goodness of Job, to which Satan questions “does Job fear God for nothing? … you have blessed the work of his hands … but stretch out your hand, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face” (The Bible, Book of Job, 1:6-12). If Job has faced no trials and tribulations, and only experienced the bounty that

Job argues with each man, never wavering in his insistence that he is guiltless. This great debate continues until Job becomes tired of his friends' ill advice and expresses his desire to argue his case with God himself. His friends fall silent, knowing that they cannot sway Job from his self-righteousness. God then appears to Job as a powerful whirlwind and questions Job, unmercifully, as to whether he could perform the works of God. It is through this barrage that Job comes to accept, without question, his lot, and the awesome power of God.