2023.06.09 (Fri) Day 160 - Job 1-5
Chapter 1
Job's Character and Wealth (1-5)
Satan Allowed to Test Job (6-12)
Satan Takes Job's Property and Children (13-22)
Chapter 2
Satan Attacks Job's Health (1-10)
Jb's Three Friends (11-13)
Chapter 3
Job Laments His Birth (1-26)
Chapter 4 - 5
Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent prosper
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As I reflect on the Book of Job.
It’s a hard one to understand and accept, until God reveal what the true message is. It’s about God. You notice God allows Satan to challenge Job, God’s faithful servant. And we read that Satan cannot break Job, even when Satan has Job’s wife and his friends on his side. Job remains stronger even through his weaker body, how does he do this?
Remember when God said:
Job 1:12
12 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your [k]power; only do not lay a hand on his person.”
God's own hand was on Job.
Have you been in similar situations? Have you tried to stay faithful to…
Job 1-5
 In general Job is known for his great piety, and his great prosperity. We can see the malice of Satan against him in the permissions obtained to try his consistency. We learn of the great trials and tribulations and troubles, the baffle Job, the ruin of his estate, and the death of his children, and through all this is we experience, his exemplary patience, and piety through all these troubles.
Job Truly, loved by God, draws , extra attention from Satan, Satan pushes his malicious prosecution’s, to drive a wedge between Job and his God. He does all that he can urging him to blasphemy. Urging God to reflect Joe. A court set, the prosecutor, or accuser…
Job 2:12-13
“When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.”
“According to Jewish tradition, people who come to comfort someone in mourning should not speak until the mourner speaks.” (LASB Study Notes)
After seven days of silence, one by one, Job’s friends began to speak. But instead of comforting him, they condemned him by suggesting that he had sinned and that he should confess his sins. He didn't agree with t…