Job God Research Paper

In the story of Job God brags about how faithful and righteous Job is to Satan. Satan says that Job is only faithful because he has an easy and prosperous life so it would be easy to believe in a merciful God. “You have blessed whatever he does, and his possessions have greatly increased.” Said Satan, “But just put out your hand now and take away all he has; he certainly will curse you to your face.’ Then [God] said to Satan, ‘See, everything that he has is in your power; only do not lay hands on Job himself.’ So Satan left the presence of [God] (Bible, 542).” God approves Satan’s idea of testing Job. Satan killed all of Job’s oxen, sheep, and camels. He destroyed his house as well. After Job did not curse God, Satan got permission to affect

Referring to Job God said. “[T]here is no man like him on the earth, blameless and upright, who reveres God and avoids evil. (Bible, 542)” Satan then wanted to prove what God had told and even though God knew what Satan would do to prove his faithfulness he agrees just to prove his point. God had no reason to agree to this other than to prove himself right and for his own vanity. When Job finally starts to question God why he has done all of these horrible acts to him God just makes a list of all of the things he has done proving his power and wisdom rather than answering Job, “Does the hawk soar because of your wisdom, And stretch her wings to the south wind? Does the eagle mount up at your bidding, And build her nest on high?” as if to say that that he could never understand the ways of God. This shows that God thinks all humans are fundamentally not as smart as him and thinks that he shouldn’t even try to explain his actions to them though they are clearly understandable by humans because the writer of this text was able to. God does stop Job’s suffering but not for weeks and possibly