Job was a rich man who lived in Uz with a loving wife and many children, not to mention his large flocks. Even with all of this, Job remains faithful to God and tries to avoid the evil of Satan. Then, Satan confronts God in Heaven. As God brags to Satan about Job’s faithfulness, Satan thinks that Job has been blessed too much by God. According to Satan, if Job were to be challenged against his faith, he would curse out God. God gives Satan permission challenge Job’s faith, as long as Satan doesn’t take Job’s life.
All happening at once, Job receives separate messages containing dreadful news: all of his livestock, servants, and children died. Job is devastated from this news; however, he still chooses to remain faithful and actually blesses God. Because of this, Satan confronts God in heaven again to receive permission to test Job once more, and God gives it to him. Satan decides to test Job in a different way now. Now, he makes Job have sores all over his skin. His wife wants Job to curse God out for once, which is what Satan wanted all along. However, Job refused.
During Job’s mourning, three of Job’s friends (Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar) visit him seven days in a row. On the seventh day, they all talk about Job’s situation. Job starts out by wishing that he was never born. That way, he wouldn’t be going through all
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One was that Job was a very important character in the Bible. This book deals with many situations that people nowadays have. Many, if not all, go through hard times in life. These are all trials of life, just like Job’s. Unlike what most of us would do, Job stayed by God through it all. Also, it brings up the question to many believers: Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? The question is answered in the book, which is this: God says he allows pain to be a part of life for a good reason. That reason could be the tests and trials He gives us in our faith in