Reflection Of Job

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

Job, a righteous man devastated beyond imagination, cries out to God in a way many can identify with. He expresses his anger toward God (10:8), feels separated from God (13:24), and demands an answer form God (10:2). However, the reader can observe Job's struggle with his righteousness. He claims his innocence and even presents to God specific deeds he has done throughout his life (29:1-25). But then he constantly comes back to the same question: "But how can a man be just before God?" (9:2). This profound question is crucial to our understanding of our relationship to God and our acceptance of His will. As good as Job is, when he sees himself in the light of God's perfection, he realizes that he is just as wretched as the next guy. God owes him nothing.

At the start of the book, I was struck by the idea that God would allow one of his finest worshipers to go through tragedy and grief so that God can prove a bet with Satan. God is supposed to bring happiness and greatness to all of his followers, yet he uses Job as a pawn. I believe that God allows suffering to occur to teach his friends and the readers a lesson. Suffering will happen to good people. Regardless of how good in nature we all are, horrific things will happen. The book uses this to appeal to skeptics. People who believe that there is no God because suffering occurs. God describes in chapters 38 and 39 that he is omnipotent and omniscient. He also, is the only force that can safeguard humans from the Leviathan. This shows that God

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).

Why does God allow Satan to cause such tragedy in Job’s life, a man whom God has already acknowledged as “my servant Job, that there is none like on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”(1.8) From the beginning, it is known that Job is in no way deserving of his injustices, so a reason must be given. God gives Job an opportunity to prove that under any circumstances Job will still have faith. This simply a test for Job. The whole Book is a “double” journey for Job -- he shows God his faith and realizes the faith God has that Job will not stray from his path. Job knows deep down that God has not forsaken him.

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.

The readers of Job and Job himself learns that God is the creator of all we see and who are we to question what God wants to do with one of his creations. We find that God does not need our approval or our understanding to do His will. God can do anything He wants within His ethical character whether it’s hardening the heart of the Egyptian Pharaoh or allowing Satan to test Job. Routledge says that God’s actions sometimes seem suspicious but, the bible describes God as being righteous and just (Routledge page 250).

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

Some writers have suggested that theodicy is the theme of the Book of Job. If this is so, then the emphasis of the book is not totally on the man Job and his suffering, though he and his suffering are certainly central, but also on God Himself and His relationship to His supreme creation.

Job is the first book of poetry. It’s theme deals with suffering and the question that many Christians ask. Why does the Lord allow the suffering of the righteous? The book of Job deals with the limited power of Satan and that he can’t do anything without God’s permission, and why we should serve God. The book of Job gives several different views of why the righteous suffer. The view of t Satan that the children of God only serve him for what they receive from God. The view of Job’s friends that the righteous suffers because of their sins and that God use suffering to bring his disciples back into fellowship with him. Jehovah’s view that when man see God something happens and that suffering allows them to see themselves. The book of Job deals

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

In this report I will explore who it was written by, the location of the text, the Insights of Jewish thinking of god and the social and historical codes of the text. This text explores a time when Satan accuses Job before God and it’s because Satan believes that “Job only serves God because God protects him and seeks God’s permission to test Job’s faith and loyalty” (GotQuestions.org, 2015)

The Book of Job has been praised but also neglected all at the same time. Its literary work is written in a poetry sense with a prose format and considered one of the greatest pieces of literature of all time. The Book of Job is one of first book of five generally called "The Books of Poetry", which contain Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon. The Book of Job is written in the Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible and the main theme that is seeks out is "Why does God allow the righteous to suffer?" First of all I will be talking about the origins and history of the book, and then I will give a brief summary on the story and theme of what the Book of Job is addressing. I will then be breaking down, in

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.