As part three of this article series and the examination of difficult lessons from Job, we will now focus on Job himself. While I want to address some of the most quoted parts of Job, again I think we sometimes draw out only part of the lesson. When Job suffers and still responds well, it is far better than many of us do. So perhaps we should be more circumspect before we ‘feel like Job’ in our suffering. Then when Job makes a mistake and justifies himself, perhaps we should be more hesitant to claim our own innocence or righteousness in a situation. Job did a lot right, so when he did something wrong, the lesson became for us much clearer.
Through the book, we can tell that Job’s initial response was at least still faithful to Adonai (Job 1:21-22, 2:9-10), even though he was in great suffering. At the end of the book, Adonai restores Job double of all that he had lost. So, what happened in between?
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