Reward for the Sinned

Job 11~42

Job keeps claiming himself as righteous before his three friends. Then Elihu appears. He tells Job that it is only God whom decides whether he s righteous or not, and that what he has said is questioning God. Also, he points out that the friends have done wrong too, for they have condemned Job, yet with no answers. Elihu does his long persuading, until God summons a whirlwind and strikes Job with many questions. Job finds what he has done wrong and prays to God for his sin. Job and his friends make an offering to God, who accepts it happily. Job's skin got back to normal, and soon, all his belongings came back. More kids, more animals, etc.


This was not like any other story. At least all the others were kind of linked with each other. The story continued from where it left off. This was different. This was more of a 'once upon a time' thing. I think Job is just a short story to give us the lesson of how religious beliefs were God-based and not human-based.

This was one long book. It wasn't all that particularly long compared to other books, just that most of it were conversations that sort of kept talking about the same thing over and over again. But whatever.

Elihu is a really good persuader. I learned about persuading methods in school, so this was somewhat interesting. Well, not really. You see, I'm sleepy. But he really used well-combined words to convince both Job and his friends of the concept of right and wrong. This can be seen in
mostly anything he says. Here's an example: "Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?" (Job 35:2)

Although Job sinned, he didn't curse God in the end. Just claimed himself as righteous. Right. Job gets rewarded in the end. Happy ending. Woohoo. But then, I start wondering: What happened to Satan? After chapter two, I never saw him again. What is he up to now, I wonder.

Job is too Talkative

Job 1~10

Job is a wealthy guy who is very loyal to god. One day, Satan comes over to God and says that Job will surely curse God if he were to take away all his property. To test Job, all his animals, servants, house, and children were all killed. Yet, Job remained loyal to God. Then, Satan gave Job soars all over the body. His three friends (Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar) came to Job to mourn with him and all that stuff. They soon talk about how Job must have made a sin, or else God wouldn't have punished him. Blah blah blah.

First point to make. Satan has actually appeared for the first time (as far as I know)! Another thing to note was here:
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them." (Job 1:6)
What do they mean by 'sons of God' here? Are they referring to angels? People? Jesus maybe? Logically, it wouldn't be people or Jesus, so it would be angels. But then, the word 'angel' did not appear even once in Genesis and Exodus.

I was amazed at Job's loyalty towards God. If they killed my sons, took my animals, and all those stuff Job had gone through, I would have lost all hope and would have started to beg to God or something like that. If not that, I would have had a 'oh-whatever-screw-God' kind of attitude. I'm just lucky it didn't happen to me.

Most of the text in Job were conversations between Job and his friends, so it was sort of boring. More boring than most other things I have read. But whatever. It's a famous story and one of those classic-must-be-read kind of thing.

But seriously. Stop talking so much. [sad face]