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- The Lord's praise of Job prompts an angel with the title of "satan" ("Adversary") to suggest that Job served God simply because God protected him. God removes Job's protection and gives permission to the angel to take his wealth, his children, and his physical health (but not his life).
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God boasts about Job, whom God considers to be an outstanding example of what a religious person should be. Satan takes the bait and raises a question about Job’s sincerity and motivation for serving God.
Satan’s First Attack on Job. 6 One day, divine beings presented themselves to the Lord, and Satan accompanied them. 7 The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” In response, Satan answered the Lord, “From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it.”
8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” 9 So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
One harrowing day, nearly everything Job treasures is stolen and the people he loves — including all his children — are murdered or killed in violent storms ( Job 1:13-16 ). But Job neither assumes God is punishing him nor becomes bitter over God’s treatment. Instead he worships God ( Job 1:20 ).
The book that gives us the most information about the devil in the Old Testament, however, is the book of Job. Job gives us insights into his character, his purposes, his tactics, and his goals. Job 1-4 flesh out a basic doctrinal understanding of Satan.
Sep 25, 2020 · It’s not likely Jehovah God. No, it’s either the winner himself, for being so clever, or it’s Lady Luck (the goddess Fortuna, to the Romans). These are the trappings of an activity that some wish to ascribe to the Almighty. The Experience of Job.
Benson Commentary. Job 9:26. As the swift ships — Hebrew, ships of desire; that is, such as are longed for, and long to be at their destined port, and crowd all the sail they can for that purpose.
