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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.
David Guzik :: Study Guide for Job 7. In Response to Eliphaz, Job Cries Out to God. A. The comfortless suffering of Job. 1. (Job 7:1-5) The hard service of Job’s suffering. “ Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade,
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. 2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very g...
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.
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?"
1. Job was a religious man, one that feared God, that is, worshipped him according to his will, and governed himself by the rules of the divine law in every thing. 2. He was sincere in his religion: He was perfect; not sinless, as he himself owns : If I say I am perfect, I shall be proved perverse.
The character given to Job (Job 1:1) is like that ascribed to the patriarchs Jacob (Genesis 25:27) and Joseph (Genesis 42:18; comp. Genesis 6:9; Genesis 17:1). The feasting of Job’s sons every one in his day is like the feast on Pharaoh’s birthday in the history of Joseph.
