The LORD said to Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? There isn’t anyone on earth like him. He is honest. He does what is right. He has respect for me and avoids evil.” (Job 1:8) Satan then does everything in his power to get Job to give up on God.
Job, a wealthy man, loses EVERYTHING HE HAS including his children, and he cries out in agony, “I know that God has wronged me, and has surrounded me with His net. He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths. He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.” (Job 19:6-9) Then it seems that Job comes to his senses and proclaims, “For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, THIS I KNOW, that in my flesh I SHALL SEE GOD, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart YEARNS WITHIN ME!” (Job 19:25-27)
Job goes on to say in his discomfort, “‘Your hands shaped me and made me. So, are you going to destroy me now? Remember, you molded me like clay. So, are you going to turn me back into dust? Didn’t you pour me out like milk? Didn’t you form me like cheese? Didn’t you put skin and flesh on me? Didn’t you sew me together with bones and muscles? You gave me life. YOU WERE KIND TO ME. YOU TOOK GOOD CARE OF ME. YOU WATCHED OVER ME.” (Job 10:8-12)
After all this trouble, And Job said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD.” In all this JOB DID NOT SIN NOR CHARGE GOD WITH WRONG.” (Job 1:21-22)
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