Sunday, April 25, 2010

Job's Suffering

The Bible. Oh why did I ever start reading it? Oh yeah, I have to for English. I almost forgot thanks to the confusion swirling around in my brain after reading just a few chapters of the big book.
Okay, so back to the ever exciting, fat book of stories galore. The first ten chapters of Job explain how the Devil wants to prove to God that Job, a very righteous man, will put a stop to his loyalty to God after being put through many tragedies and curses all from God himself. Ones such as having all of the people in Job's life that he cares about put to death, Job being put through horrible diseases, loosing his home, his friends, and well, everything else! Even though Job went through all of this knowing that it was God himself who was cursing him with such horrible things, all the while believing that he must of done something wrong to deserve these wrong doings, Job never blamed God, nor did he curse the Lord's name in vain. He stayed a righteous man.
But sadly, Job was still being put to God's test. Instead of things getting better, they all just got worse. Bad enough to where Job was led to a time of depression. He had nothing left and still questioned himself about what he did to deserve such pain. Job is confused so he states it to God, "I am full of confusion; therfore see thou mine affliction" (Job 10:15) Poor Job.

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