In Job, chapter three, verse one, he was bereaved, humiliated, and in pain. His utmost hurt was that God seemed to have left him. In his speech from chapter two, verses two through twenty-six, Job told God exactly how he felt. He began by cursing the day of his birth and his miserable existence. However, …
In Job, chapter two, verse eleven, is a part of the Friends of Job section that stems from the theme verse until verse thirteen. After hearing of Job’s adversity, his three friends come to sympathize with him and comfort him. The Book of Job records their dialogues with the sufferer. Their perspective represents a popular but incomplete …
In Job, chapter two, verse ten, is part of Satan’s second request of God section against the servant from the opening verse until the theme concerning his well-being: health. The devil even went further and got Job’s wife into the situation in verse nine to disrupt his integrity, advising him to go against God due to the …
In Job, chapter two, verse six, God allowed Satan to inflict further pain upon his servant because neither Job’s complete commitment to God could be proven nor God’s endeavor to redeem him from sin demonstrated effectively without undeserved suffering. The testing of the faith of a righteous person through such suffering has enormous significance because …
In Job, chapter two, verse three, Job the servant, the innocent sufferer, foreshadows Jesus Christ and all righteous believers under the new covenant. As the Old Testament ideal of the suffering righteous person, Job is a type of Christ: the perfect righteous man who suffered even though he was innocent. The sinless Christ suffered in …
In Job, chapter one, verse twenty, the servant of God reacted to the disasters that happened to him with intense grief. However, through humility, Job submitted to God and continued to worship Him amid extreme adversity, as in verse twenty-one and chapter two, verse ten. Job’s later reactions continued with calamity, including doubt, anger, and …
In Job, chapter one, verse twelve, God allows Satan the authority to destroy Job’s property and family. However, He limited Satan as to what he could do, for he did not have the power of death over Job. Satan brought violent weather and destructive people against Job. Job’s afflictions began from the malice of Satan, …
In Job, chapter one, verse eleven, the primary questions from verses six until now of the book come to fruition. Is it possible to love and serve Him because of who He is and not just for His gifts? Can the righteous maintain their faith in and love for God amid unexplainable tragedy and undeserved …
In Job, chapter one, verse ten, because Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy, as in John ten, verse ten, God places a hedge of protection around His people to shield them from Satan’s attacks. The ‘hedge” is like a spiritual “wall of fire” surrounding God’s faithful so that Satan cannot harm them. “For I, …
In Job, chapter one, verse nine, Satan reacts to God’s claim that Job was a godly man by assaulting both Job and God. Satan questioned Job’s motives and the reality of Job’s righteousness by insisting that Job’s love for God was self-serving and that he worshiped God only because it profited him. Satan implied that …
