The Book of Job

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The Book of Job (איוב) is the 18 book in the Hebrew Bible or old testament. The book of Job is poetry. It is considered one of the hardest books in the bible to understand.

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[edit] Job

The bible says "In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East." "5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. This was Job's regular custom." The bible says that Job as a rich, good man, who loves god.

[edit] Satan Before God

One day satan and the angels of god whet to god. God asks satan tells satan about his servant Job and how good he is. Satan says that the only reason why he is like that is because god was good to him and gave him sons and daughters and many animals. Satan asks if he can test Job and god lets satan. God tells satan not to kill Job.

[edit] First Test

The first test Satan does on Job is take away all of Job's animals, killed the servants that were with the animals, and killed all of Job's sons and daughters while they were eating together. Even though satan did these things to Job, Job did not curse god like satan wanted Job to do.

[edit] Satan before god again

Satan and the angels went to meet god again. Like the time before god talked about how good his servant Job is. Satan says that Job will curse god if he makes Job sick, wich he did. This is the last meeting with satan, the angels,

[edit] Second test

Satan made sores all over Job's body. Job's wife told him to curse god and die. Job told her that if he said that, that would be foolish. Even though Job lost everything that he had and had painful sores all over his body Job did not sin against the lord be cursing god. Satan had failed again in trying to make him sin. This is the last time in the book it talks about satan.

[edit] Job's Friends

When Job's friends heard about the things that happened to him they went to comfort him. Most of the book tells about Job and his friends talking. The names of his friends are Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. Towards the end of the book Jobs friends start to think that Job is not good because a lot of bad things are happening to Job. Job keeps on saying that he is good but he starts to wonder if god really is good.

[edit] Job and god

After god appears to the three friends and Job. God got mad at two of Job's friends for thinking that Job was not good. God gives Job more than he had before and blesses Job. After that Job lives a great life.

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