Righteousness In The Conflict Between Job And Job

Job is the central figure in the Book of Job from the bible. In this biblical story, God takes up Satan's challenge and overwhelms Job with many tragedies in order to test his faith. Job becomes victim of the plague and marauders. Through all this suffering Job had three friends that would visit in an attempt to comfort him, but only made things worse. They agreed Job must have been guilty of some evil and that is why God is punishing him. However, at the end of the story instead of turning to sin Job confides in a false comfort. The biblical allusion to Job characterizes Rebekka’s own suffering. She too is suffering, in this case from smallpox, and takes comfort in her imaginary friends. These imaginary friends, or spirits, are welcomed by

The view of fate the book of Job expresses, though similar in that it originates from God, differs in a few important ways. In Job, situations are predetermined to occur, but the personal choices of the people involved determine the outcome of the situation. The story of Job opens with Job's fate of suffering being planned. Satan presents himself in an audience before God. God makes example of Job, and Satan rebuffs, stating that Job's constancy is only because of God's preferential treatment. Satan tells God, "But put forth thy hand now and touch all he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face."(40). In response, power is given to Satan to torment Job as a test. Job's life and finally health are viciously mangled and destroyed by Satan. Though Job does not know the reasons behind his great suffering, we are told that "In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly."(41), and "In all this did not Job sin with his lips."(41). Self-pity creeps into Job's thoughts and words, but there is no disenchanted turn from God. Instead in Job the reader sees a turn to God for relief and

making him suffer. Job had always been true to the Lord's word and had never

The Book of Job is of wisdom genre. Job was a righteous, rich man. God and Satan have a confrontation regarding Job’s faith in God. God allows Satan to test Job by taking away his family, sheep, camels, and servants. Job was passed the test. Job was tested again. This time it was his health that was taken away. Job speaks to his three friends and curses the day he was born. The four of them have a lengthy conversation as to why Job is being punished. Elihu enters the conversation and becomes somewhat angry with Job’s lack of faith in God. God speaks to Job in question form. Job repents. God speaks the three friends and advises them to sacrifice a burnt offering. Job was them made prosperous and was “given twice as much as he had before” by God.

     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.

Throughout the bible there have been countless individuals and masses that have suffered by the hands of God. One that immediately comes to mind is Job. Job had lied in misery for several painful months. He carried the grief and loss of sons, daughters, friends, relationships, and even his own wife. The book of Job deals with the issue of suffering and God’s position in the matter. Being a rich farmer, as Job was, would allow us to assume that he was a hard working man that was provided for and was in need of nothing. Job’s story is a testament to faith in God when things are no longer in one’s own favor. The argument of this paper is that the exact testament of faith Job goes through is a violent one, that may produce a sense of underlying

Reading the Book of Job and Goethe’s Faust, it triggered the urge of comparing Job of the Bible and Faust. Both men were knowledgeable and morally upright, and Almighty God has faith and confidence in their strength of withstanding any pressure directed to them. When comparing two scenarios, it is evident that Job was more loyal, but Faust was put under more pressure, and this made him succumb to greed.

Zaphar tells Job that he must put away his sins and then God will restore him to former form.3 By saying this, Zaphar claims that once Job repents for the sins he has committed, God will heal Job and he will be well once again. Similar to Zaphar’s speech, Bildad asks Job if he should be blameless and that surely God will awaken in him and restore him to his former domain.4 After these speeches Eliphaz tells Job “Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you appeal?”5 By saying this, he is telling Job to call for help and pity from God and religious officials. He is also claiming that Job does not appeal to anyone in his current state because of his leprosy and distorted state. After all of these accusations and claims against Job, the thought that he may truly be innocent never crosses any of the friends minds.7 And after his friend’s speeches, Job’s other friend Elihu cannot hold his thoughts in any more and begins a tirade against Job.

The book of Job and Medea are two dissimilar stories where attacks are made against their character, but they share similar struggles; such as, each character has lost family members. First, Job is chosen by God to set an example for Satan. Satan believes he can take everything Job has, and Job will curse God. Job’s loyalty is tested when his possessions were distroyed. Although Job did not suffer physical pain, his heart was full of loss.

In stark contrast to God’s presence in Genesis, the character of God in Job strays from the ideal perfection of the divine. The concept of the ideal manifested in Genesis is embodied in God’s moral, reasonable, and rational behavior. In Job, on the other hand, rather than being reasonable, methodical, and creating life, God displays more human characteristics and plays the role of both creator and destroyer. The book of Job begins with God’s boastful bargain with Satan, which subsequently leads God to allow the total destruction of Job’s family and livelihood. Job is even attacked physically with “loathsome sores… from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head” (Job 2:7). In an uncharacteristically immoral decision, God gives Satan the power do

The Book of Job tells the story of a man who is a servant of God, “perfect in integrity, who fears God and avoids evil.” (Pg.6). The story centers on the profound suffering Job faces when an Accusing Angel decides to challenge Job’s faith in God (pg. 6). As Job is tested the following questions have risen from its readers. Is Job patient?

The article is a biblical parable which depicts the story of a man, from the land of Uz, named Job. The article reveals that he lived in opulence and his flock was abundant, making him the richest man amongst the people of the East. According to the article, Job had seven sons and three daughters, who lived extra scavenge live with their father’s wealth. The article reveals that the unique thing about Job was his dedication to God; According to the author, he was so faithful to God that God gave the Satan the permission to test his faithfulness. As explained by the article, the Satan tested Job by taking away all his wealth, children and finally afflicting him with disease but he remained resolute in worshiping God. According to the scholars

The placement of Job as a masterful work of literature notwithstanding, the versatility and wide acceptance of the book of Job is due primarily to its investigation of the problem of evil and the desire to distinguish how the sovereignty of God contends with theodicy. In the end, the overall message of Job is not the problem of evil or the effect evil has on humanity, but rather God’s sovereignty in the face of evil. As this paper discusses the sovereignty of God, it is alluding to the ultimate power and authority God has over all things, including evil.

Alas, poor Job is left to ponder why such misfortunes were heaped upon him, for God never really answers this question. Moreover, throughout history, people have been pondering the very same question. Many books and essays have been written on "The Book of Job" in an attempt to try to explain the cause of suffering, but the theories that have been extracted have had primarily western theological overtones.

The story of Job begins with an introduction about him and his family. It points to the blessings that God had endowed him and his family with. The story leads us to learn that he and his children were blessed because of him. On one hand, Satan wanted to prove that humans would hate God who hurts or kills them and leaves them to suffer, but as it is mentioned in Job chapter one, God is confident God would be proud of Job realizing God’s truth, the man whom God saw as a righteous.