Job was a wealthy patriarch and God-fearing man with a good life and a large family. God allowed him to be tried by the accuser with loss and sickness. Some friends tried to argue with Job about why he was suffering. At the end, God restored his health and wealth.
How do you use what you understood from the book of Job?
Ezekiel 14:12-20 Son of man, when a land sins against Me by committing a trespass, then I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, even if these three men, Noa, Daniel, and Iyov, were in it, they would deliver yet their own lives by their righteousness, declares Iehovah God.
James 5:11 We count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Iyov, and have seen what the Lord finally brought about; that the Lord is full of mercy and compassion.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, yet with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1:8 Iehovah said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Iyov? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.
1:21 Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. Iehovah gives, and Iehovah takes away. Praise the name of Iehovah.
1:32 You speak as a foolish woman speaks, Iov told his wife. Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?
27:10 Will he delight in the Almighty (el Shaday)? Will he call on God at all times?
28:28 The fear of Iehovah, is wisdom, and to turn from evil is understanding.
31:1 I have made a covenant with my eyes, to not look at a young woman.
42:10 After Iyov had prayed for his friends, Iehovah restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.
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