Essay on Job s
Maria Gonzalez
Minister Brantley
November 29, y
God Appears To Job
Job gets the audience with God that he has been asking for. It does not answer his question whether he deserved the suffering he experienced. Job realizes the fault is his for expecting to know the answer, not God’s for failing to provide it. “ I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful to me, which I did not know” (Job 42:3). Perhaps it is just that he is so overwhelm by the presence of God that he no longer needs an answer.
If we are looking for a reason for Job’s suffering , we will not find it either. On the one hand, Job ordeal has given him an even greater appreciation for God’s goodness. “ I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted” (Job 42:2). Jobs’s relationship with God seems to have deepened , and he has become wiser as a result . He appreciates more than ever that his former prosperity was not due to his own strength and power. But the difference is only a matter of degree. Was the improvement worth the unspeakable or loss? We don’t get an answer to that question from Job or from God?
God Denounces Jobs’s Friends (Job 42:7-9)
God denounces the three frieda who arrogant proclamation of false wisdom had so tormented Job, In a satisfying and ironic twist, he declares that if Job prays on their behalf he will not punish them for their ignorant seethes in God’s stead (Job 42:7-8). They, who wrongly urged Job to repent , must now depend on him to accept their repentance, and in God to fulfill Jobs;s entreaty on their behalf. Job’s act of praying on their behalf reminds us of the first chapter where Job prays for his children’s protection . Job is a praying man, in season and out.
Job’s Prosperity Restored (Job 42:7-17)
This section of Job contains a storybook ending in which many of Job’s fortunes are restored. Many, but not all. He receives twice the wealth he had before (Job 42:10), plus a new brood of seven son sad
Minister Brantley
November 29, y
God Appears To Job
Job gets the audience with God that he has been asking for. It does not answer his question whether he deserved the suffering he experienced. Job realizes the fault is his for expecting to know the answer, not God’s for failing to provide it. “ I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful to me, which I did not know” (Job 42:3). Perhaps it is just that he is so overwhelm by the presence of God that he no longer needs an answer.
If we are looking for a reason for Job’s suffering , we will not find it either. On the one hand, Job ordeal has given him an even greater appreciation for God’s goodness. “ I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted” (Job 42:2). Jobs’s relationship with God seems to have deepened , and he has become wiser as a result . He appreciates more than ever that his former prosperity was not due to his own strength and power. But the difference is only a matter of degree. Was the improvement worth the unspeakable or loss? We don’t get an answer to that question from Job or from God?
God Denounces Jobs’s Friends (Job 42:7-9)
God denounces the three frieda who arrogant proclamation of false wisdom had so tormented Job, In a satisfying and ironic twist, he declares that if Job prays on their behalf he will not punish them for their ignorant seethes in God’s stead (Job 42:7-8). They, who wrongly urged Job to repent , must now depend on him to accept their repentance, and in God to fulfill Jobs;s entreaty on their behalf. Job’s act of praying on their behalf reminds us of the first chapter where Job prays for his children’s protection . Job is a praying man, in season and out.
Job’s Prosperity Restored (Job 42:7-17)
This section of Job contains a storybook ending in which many of Job’s fortunes are restored. Many, but not all. He receives twice the wealth he had before (Job 42:10), plus a new brood of seven son sad