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No matter what the circumstances are in your life, a faith like Job's will lead you to the Lord. Love the Lord with all your heart, for He is worthy of no less.

Job was a faithful man who keeps his word. He never turned his back against God.

Job feared and loved God with ALL of his heart and life. In fact, among men born of a woman he is the highest and greatest SAINT next to our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. And it also means that any Christian can equally attain to this height of total devotion, submission, righteousness and holiness.

The book of Job is a great example of the kind of trust you must have in God. Despite of the horrific situations that SAINT tends to set up for you to curse God and die. The letters in SAINT to me stand for Sinister, Angry, Ignorant, Non-believer in God The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost.

I love the way Job loves the Lord and it’s just to show us that Satan is everywhere, in the church out of the church, and he is working overtime in Christian lives. So, we have to be strong and keep the faith.

Faith, hope but most of all Love. Those are just a few of the ingredients needed to show the Love of God to self and others. I truly love the book of Job because through his faithfulness and perseverance, it shows me that no matter what I may go through - God is and will always be there with me. He will restore and deliver me from all pain, sorrow, loss, stolen/diverted/polluted blessings, illnesses and all life's trials and tribulations. Thank you all for your wonderful comments. God bless!

I like Job's faith.

Job is the perfect example of faith. This man was human like all the rest of us, even though all that happened to him he still praised the Lord!! This is very inspirational, and quite convicting. I pray that one day I'll have half the faith that Job had.

@Peter,
The Bible clearly states that ‘’the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’’ Romans 6:23. And death and life are mutually exclusive. The trouble is that most unbelievers do judge from the cover, without entering the book, which is completely wrong. They take the Bible as a baby playbook, so they set all sort of barriers, not because of what they know, but mainly, because of what they don’t know.
Sure there is profit in being a good person as the Bible says ’’For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.’’ 1 Timothy 4:8 And I have chosen both bodily exercise and godliness. God bless you.

Andre - you appear to have a more undrestandable approach in saying that these things are figurative (such as "hell"). I would imagine the majority believe that hell is literally a real place. As I said before, we are speaking two different languages and will never connect on this subject. However I think that we can agree that being a kind, loving person should be everyone's goal and we all have the right to our beliefs (as long as we don't impose them on others!).

Let us use Job 1 as an example to us, that as long as we are faithful and true to God, no matter what we may go through in this life, through trials, through testing, we must not give up, we must always keep the faith and hold on, in spite of the situation, and God will bring us through victoriously.

@Peter,
The word of God is not against what you are saying. Only that it gives a better hope for those who trust God. And denying God is a choice one will only be responsible for… there is no eternal torture, that is simply figurative… The loving God as He is cannot spend eternity torturing human beings, no, there is not such a story in God’s plan. Only that, the word of God is meant for those who believe, NOT for those who do not believe… likewise people whom God dealt with, or still deal with have a relationship of their own with God, … a relationship, you and I may not clearly perceive. Sure we can judge from outside, but not without mistakes…’’For they that say such things declare PLAINLY that they seek a country’’. Hebrews 11:14… God bless you.

Andre, We come from 2 different schools of thought. What gives me hope is family, friends, love, and the awe that I feel in looking at the grandeur of the universe and the fact that I am lucky enough to be part of it. I try to be a good person, not because of the hope of a reward or to avoid eternal torture, but because I believe the world would be a better place if we all treated each other well.

@Peter,
Those are sense based reasoning… and God is very far beyond all that we desire or simply think. Of course Job came out victorious and stronger than ever before. If God did not help him, Job would have failed… but God did, after Job exerted his utmost.
Based on what you say, the spirit of competition itself should be demise. Because there is no crowning without striving. And striving implies sufferings and sacrifices of all sorts, afterward come the rewards, and Job went through all such.
Now those who died, if they died in righteousness, the Bible says, God has prepared them a city, which is far beyond this life’s senseless stuffs. And those who look to that city don’t think worldly things, they think godly ones, and a ready even to die at any time, to preserve their rewards ( Hebrews 11:14-16, 35-40). If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable ( 1 Corinthians 15:19).
God bless you.

Andre, Couldn't God have intervened and helped the poor guy out? What about his poor family and all of the servants (slaves?) who were slaughtered while God looked on. I hope he apologized to them in Heaven.

It is Job's way of life to make sure they are guiltless in the sense that after any of their merry occasions, Job would make a burnt offering the next morning according to their numbers should they have gone contrary to the will of God in anyway which is likely in their thoughts.

@Peter,
No, it is not God who inflicts sufferings to Job.
It’s actually Satan who does that, and God, knowing job strength and perseverance, lives free hand to Satan, to prove Job’s strength to Satan and Job himself.
It was hard to Job, but he ultimately came victorious, and more than conqueror.
Diamonds are only shaped through friction. It is only after test that we recognize our true being.
God bless you.

What a beautiful story. If I understand it correctly, God inflicts terrible suffering on a good person just to prove appoint to Satan.

I think the book of Job is good in consoling the bereaved. It does good. I’m writing this after ministering to 800 students who lost their beloved deputy headmaster in a fire tragedy yesterday. He lost all his family. The reality of the book Job is that it heals and also prepares the heart over tragedy.

It is an inspiring book to say. I don\'t normally read the bible but somehow yesterday as I opened the book I came across this Job. I fell in love with the scripture. In short it gives hope. My understanding is that even if it singles out Job as the man of God this also applies onto ours as today\'s human beings.

I am facing a retrenchment at work and I prayed before falling asleep and God woke me up in the middle of the night and gave me a message that all will be well. I asked for confirmation and I was given Job chapter 4 and 5. God has reminded me through this that no matter what happens he will always take care of me if I am righteous and lead a blameless life even though calamities may come my way. All the calamities mentioned in Chapter 5 verses 19- 23 have been happening since, but God has protected me and delivered me from each one! I am so blessed and I thank God for his absolutely awesome love.

Emazing... I hope you realize Job's testing occurred centuries before Jesus was even born.

The story about Job reminded me that for God so loved us that he sent his only begotten son Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins. I'm sure Job knew that and no matter what happened in his life Job knew that his God is an awesome God and would always be there for him. God will never leave you no matter what, He will always be by your side every step of the way even when you are suffering. Love God with all your heart and He will hear your heart even in your deepest sorrows and tribulations.

I often find myself quoting this passage of scripture. It is, I believe, my favorite passage in the bible. Job was the first book of the bible that I read as a child and I have always remembered it. Job message helped me to persevere through many trials. I love him because no matter what he remained true to his faith and love of GOD and I do too.

The Book of Job has always made the most sense to me not as a literal history of a man, but as a parable, used just as Christ later would, to teach that misfortune does not stem from a person's wickedness. When we ask God, "Why me?" during our troubles, this parable teaches us that God is making more from our lives. Even if it is our lot to perish to injustice as the martyrs and saints, in doing so with our faith unbroken we further God's kingdom.

I do not believe we should interpret this book literally; God and Satan behave in a manner very inconsistant with how they are portrayed everywhere else in the Bible. Rather I am quite convinced this is a parable. It lays out an arguement, points and counterpoints and refutations, and concludes in the last chapter. Besides, 1:8 states Job was a perfect man, yet only Christ was perfect. Job is a hypothetical example to build the premise of this arguement. I am quite certain he never existed, but the teaching in this book is still very real and divinely granted.

Job was a perfect man, and he avoided evil. God blessed him, and put a hedge of protection around him, as well as his household. Satan charges Job with serving God for the blessing. Interesting that God reminded Satan hath he considered His servant Job. Satan walks to and fro in the earth seeking whom he may destroy, but he has to get permission to harm the child of God. Thank God that He has Satan on a tight rope, and he can only do to us what God will allow. While Job was not aware of the conversation between God, and Satan he passed the test. In one day Job goes from being the richest man in the East, to being the poorest man. Then he goes from being a beloved father, to being childless, and yet he proclaims naked came I from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away blessed be the name of the Lord. Job worships God for who He is, and not for what He had given him. We too must be tested in our faith, and God does not give us more than we can bear. Job was blessed with more than he lost, in the end. The bible tells us that a wise man waits until the end of a matter. Job confessed the Lord knows the way I will take, and when I am finished I will be pure gold. Gold to be purified has to be heated in a furnace to remove the dross, and then only pure gold will be the finished product. So God allows these trials to come in our lives just like Job, to purify us so that we will be pure gold. There is an end to all things. God knows the end from the beginning.

In reading this story, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the servants(slaves) that were murdered just so God could prove a point to Satan. I hope he apologized to them in heaven.

I as all went through a vary hard time in my younger years and s had moments that i thought God forgot me, but after reading job i realized that even when we are struggling to keep our selfs from falling god knows us enough to believe in us we just have to believe in him . Yes he got me through it and im blessed more than i would have imagined. So keep holding on god does keep his promise we just have to trust his ways...

I once looked to the sky,.. and asked. God,.. what's up? I'm walking the path, and everything is falling apart. So,. I decided to open the bible and drop my finger on a random page. As I had done ,.. once before and I fell on the story of Job. I read it and imidiately understood... That,.. even the most perfect person, in the eye's of god,.. will and most likely be hampered by the devils dealings. This is inevidable,. for evil walks amoungst us. So... One: you can get depressed,. angry and scoff at God or Two: Have faith,.. keep the faith in God,.. who will help in due time. Remember,.. Patience is a virtue.

I think it shows the real chacter of God and Satan and us as human beings.