Job is a pious man living in the land of Uz with a large family, extensive flocks, and immense wealth. He is “blameless”, “upright,” and careful to avoid evil. One day, Satan comes to heaven and appears before God. God tells Satan about Job’s goodness, but Satan argues that Job is good only because God has blessed him with such happiness and wealth. Satan tells God that, if he is allowed to punish a man of such privilege, Job will lose faith in God. To test this claim, God grants Satan permission to tempt and torment Job as long as Satan doesn’t take Job’s life. Over the course of a single day, Job receives four messengers, each bringing news that his slaves, livestock, and children have all died. Job shaves his head and tears his clothes, …show more content…
On the seventh day, Job talks to them, starting a conversation in which each of the men gives his opinion on Job’s suffering. Job wishes he was never born, comparing life to light and death to darkness. Job wishes he was never born because life is the source of his agony. Eliphaz responds to Job by saying that he never really understood their pain, and even goes so far as to say that Job’s misery must be because Job has sinned, and tells Job to seek God’s blessing. Bildad and Zophar agree that Job has sinned and say that he should try to show more blameless behavior. Bildad tells Job that his children brought death upon themselves and Zophar implies that this sin Job has committed deserves more punishment than what he was given. Job responds to each of these comments, become so irritated with his friends that he calls them “worthless physicians” who “whitewash with lies”. After making plans to display his blamelessness, Job begins to think about man’s relationship with God. He asks himself why God judges people if their behavior can be altered or forgiven. Job also wonders about how humans can sway God’s justice. God is beyond human comprehension, so it would seem impossible for humans persuade God with prayers. God cannot be fooled, and Job realizes that he does not even understand himself fully enough to plead his case to God. Job wishes for someone to intermediate between God and himself, or for God to just send him to
He questions how long Job will complain and describes the suffering of the wicked to try convince Job to repent and ask the Lord for forgiveness. By now, Job has been accused by all three of his friends at least once and responds to Bildad that he is insulted. Job continues calling out to and questioning the Lord, and he describes all that the Lord has done to him. Nevertheless, Job ends his soliloquy by stating, as the verse says, that his Redeemer lives and that redemption is still coming to this earth. This verse and the verse that follows, saying that “even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God,” implies that Job believes he will only see God after he has died and gone to Heaven.
Satan is far beyond a red horny creature with a pitchfork. In fact, he is far more dangerous and possess more power than most humans may imagine him to possess. Satan employs great power over humanity, the Bible tells us that “the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one” (1 John 5:19). In the beginning of time, Satan was one of God 's most beautiful angels, the chief angel of God’s Kingdom (Ezekiel 18:12-14) whose pride led to his fall from heaven (Ezekiel 28:17) a A. Thesis: - Satan’s pride developed in him a desire to oppose God 's kingdom to be like
In the work of The Bhagavad-gītā and the work of Job both the main protagonists of each work, Arjuna and Job, seek guidance and wisdom from their respective gods. Arjuna seek for guidance from Krishna during the war and job from his god for why he has been suffering. Each god from the works responds to their person but each respond in a different way. In the work, Bhagavad-gītā Krishna gives Arjuna a straight forward answer. On the other hand, the god in the work Job does not.
I concurred with Job! I was not denying his existence, but I doubted his absolute justice.” (45) With this statement Eliezer is displaying that he still holds the belief in God, but chooses to keep his silence just as Job did when everything was taken from him. He cannot comprehend how a self-proclaimed God of “justice” can allow for such a monstrosity to occur, but he still believes in God’s existence. Towards the end of Night, Eliezer realizes family members have abandoned each other for a greater chance at survival and mentions “this God in whom I no longer believed.”
He still refers to Him as Almighty and recognizes His presence. Yet, he does question His righteousness and care for the Jewish people, when he questions why He would stay silent and why his fellow prisoners would worship Him. He explains his position, saying that “I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45).
The way he treats Celia also alludes to the way the devil tested Job in the Bible, the devil showed no restraint in hurting Job just like Hector’s
As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice. ”(45). In the book you see other Jews experience a similar loss of faith.
In general, humanity forgets the message from the book of Job and at moments curses God blaming him for all humanity 's disgraces. It is important to remember how God gave Satan approval to disturb Job by leaving him in his hands. Therefore, this provides evidence that God test 's humanity, but his hand is not involved in the process, as it is represented in (Job 1:12) “The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”
Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous” (77). Here the creature is comparing himself to Adam in the Bible — they are both alone and isolated. However, instead of having his creator care for him, his creator instead neglects him, causing him to become a “fallen angel,” which is synonymous to Satan. The monster not only understands that he is alienated, but that he is completely abandoned, and he says “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice” (189-190).
To end the story a thunderstorm rolls in and Prometheus is left chained to the rock. The Book of Job is a story about a man who “feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1, ESV). He was a very wealthy man who had ten children, many livestock, and many servants. Satan speaks to God one day and God gives him permission to test Job’s faith. Satan begins by taking away Job’s children, killing his livestock,
Later, they came to the land of Job to ask if he would help them. Jepthah reluctantly
Once Satan had manipulated Eve into eating the fruit, God “Sent him out of the gardens of/ Eden to tip the ground from which he was taken” (Genesis 3:23). Through the end of book one of Milton’s creations, Beelzbub one of Satan’s angels had a lurking suspicion that God can’t be overpowered (Book 1).
Job was a man of faith, he repented for little injustices. He was tested to prove his righteousness and succeeded. His children were killed, his cattle was killed, he was painfully diseased and his was wealth diminished. Through all this he remained faithful. His so called friends told him to abandon God as he had him.
I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45). Before his struggle, he was emotionally and spiritually connected to God and spent so much of his time studying the Jewish faith. In contrast, after he experienced living in a concentration camp he questioned God’s motives and no longer believed in absolute justice. He doesn’t believe in the same God he once did; before, he believed in a benevolent and kind father of humankind, he now can only believe in an apathetic and cold observer of the Jew’s
The story of Job who was said to be “the greatest of all the people of the East.” He was “blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil” (Job 1: 1-3). Whenever his three daughters and seven sons went feasting from one brother’s home to the next, their father would go and make a sacrifice of their sins to God on their behalf for fear that they could have sinned and cursed God in their immoral self-indulgence. We are told Job did that “regularly” (Job 1:4-5). Then after, God’s consent for Satan to tempt him, Job lost everything, his children, wealth, and his good health within a short period of time.