Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
Satan accused Job before God, insisting that Job’s godliness was essentially false, and that Job only served God for what he could get from Him. i. Satan’s reply to God first reveals his essential cynicism ; he doubts every supposed good as being dishonest and hollow.
Two stages for a great drama: earth and heaven. 1. (Job 1:1-5) The earthly stage. There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
Job 1:7. Satan's wanderings. Here Satan appears in a very prominent and privileged position. He is the accuser rather than the tempter. At all events, he has a range of influence which suggests most terrible possibilities.
He could not even touch Job, without God's permission; and, even after the Lord gave him permission to destroy Job's possessions, he was not allowed to touch the person of Job (Job 1:12). "Doth Job fear God for naught?"
Study Job 1 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning.
The key to the book is found in the first chapter, which, after an introductory testimony to Job, translates the reader to heavenly scenes (Job 1:6). The sons of God are angelic beings bringing in their reports to God, the mystery being that Satan is found “also among them.”
Job was a good man. Loving, reverencing God, hating evil. Now he had seven sons and three daughters. Plus seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east (Job 1:2-3).
