>>13471230Did you read the book? Did you read it multiple times over a few days? The Bible is multilayered, you can’t just read a book in one sitting and expect to understand it. Job in particular should be read once every three days, ten times before you begin to understand it.
So Job is a devout servant of God. He follows all the rules. Satan wagers to God that Job wouldn’t follow all these rules and serve God were Job misfortunate rather than fortunate. Is Job serving God because God is good to him, or because Job truly loves God?
So God allows Satan to trial and tempt Job. Job withstands the trials and temptations but begins to have doubts; I am doing everything right, so why does misfortune befall me? Job’s friends represent different ideas about this issue. Should Job have faith that He is doing the right thing? Should Job have faith that He will be rewarded?
Finally, God and Job come “face to face”. Job asks why these ills happen to him. God answers that the things of God are far greater than the things of Man, that Man can never understand the glory and significance of God, that Job can never understand his own purpose and destiny because God is so much mightier and wise than he. God explains this in metaphor. Job understands and commits himself to further trust and faith. In the end, Job is rewarded.
The story is about trusting in God, not because someone told you to trust in God, but because God is inconceivably greater than you in every possible way — we trust in His plan because we see how much greater God is than us.
Does this make more sense, Anon?
