Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
David Guzik commentary on Job 1, where Satan asks God for permission to attack Job, who endures catastrophic loss, but does not blame God for it.
First, Job is a true story. It describes who Job is, what happens to him, and how he and others respond to what happens. It also tells us what happens to Job at the end of the story. But, second, Job is a story with long pauses for speeches in which Job and others reflect on what has happened.
The Book of Job knows nothing of Moses, or the Exodus, the Temple, the kingdom, or the Law (once only in Job 22:22 is the word law used in a merely general sense— receive the law at his mouth), or of any of the later incidents in the history of Israel.
Matthew Henry's Commentary. Job 1:1. There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 1:1-5 Job was prosperous, and yet pious. Though it is hard and rare, it is not impossible for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Job 1 COMMENTARY (Pulpit) There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Verse 1. - There was a man. This opening presents to us the Book of Job as a detached work, separate from and independent of all others.
In making his protests to God, Job may have been guilty of using rash language, but at least he took his protests to the right person. Job was finally satisfied, not through having all his questions answered, but through meeting the God to whom he had cried.
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