Job was a God-fearing man who had to endure a heavy test. God loved Job and always kept him in mind making him prosper. But the accusing angel out of envy questioned Job's integrity in God's court, and according to the story in the Book of Job, the Lord consented to the accusing angel to subject him to a harsh and painful situation.
This is how a series of misfortunes occurred and Job who was a rich and prosperous man, was left in misery, his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, found out about his situation and went to comfort him. Thus began in several cycles of speeches the dialogues between Job and his friends.
And in the richness of the dialogues of these righteous men, in the Book there is something very important, the character of Job exposed his situation with great sadness and depression, but, can men in their misery and mortality stand as judges of what God decides?
In this way, the character Job described the perfection and immeasurable power of the creator of all things:
"God is wise in heart and mighty in strength.
Who has resisted Him and prospered?
He moves mountains without their knowing it
and overturns them in his anger.
He shakes the earth from its place
and makes its pillars tremble.
He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;
he seals off the light of the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
He performs wonders, that cannot be fathomed,
miracles that cannot be counted" Job 9:4-10.
Job made the mistake in front of his friends of wanting to become God's judge but he also warned that God is the most perfect being that exists, God is the wisdom itself, and human beings with his limited reason can only access the mystery of God in a limited way. Faced with the infinity of God and the mysteries of life and death, human beings can only speculate. For this reason, without answering openly, what the book of Job, in the Bible, taught us is that when painful things happen to those who do not deserve them, only poverty of spirit and final perseverance remain, as Lord Jesus also taught.
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