Comparing Job And The Book Of Job

To be a person of faith is to live in a way that is faithful to the covenant with God, to commit oneself to participate responsibility in the community called into being by that covenant, and to devote one’s faculties to understanding what is involved in the commitments. (Cobb) Along with faith comes patience, the ability to endure any situation for an extensive period of time with the foreknowledge of the outcome at the end, whether it be good or bad. Having both of these virtues combined is a skill not achieved by many, but acquired by few. One of the few people who exhibited both traits in hand is Job, a man whose faith and patience were tested and deemed upright by God in biblical times. The Book of Job prevails as one of the most sought-out

Hebrews 11:1 of the King James Bible defines faith as “[T]he substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” People who have faith tend to take more chances with life in order to get where they want to be and are confident and passionate in everything that they do. To have faith is to trust God and that trust means that regardless of personal feelings and preferences, God will handle it; hence the saying, “Let go and let God.” (Cobb) In Job’s case, his faith was one of his strong

Job himself was in such a dark place that he cursed the day he was born with a sorrowful vengeance. “Let the day parish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said…why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?” (Job 3:3 & 3:11) He speaks from a place of anger and it is completely understandable and relatable. Take for instance when a modern day parent loses their child. Their grief is endless. There are days, weeks, and months even where the Parent’s life is abnormal because they cannot function at the hands of their loss. Job was the exact same way. Everything he held dear was taken away and he sinks into a deep