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Job’s piety and life of bliss
A man in the land of Uz was named Job. That man was honest, a person of absolute integrity; he feared God and avoided evil.
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When the days of the feast had been completed, Job would send word and purify his children. Getting up early in the morning, he prepared entirely burned offerings for each one of them, for Job thought, Perhaps my children have sinned and then cursed God in their hearts. Job did this regularly.
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Job’s motives questioned
One day the divine beings came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Adversary also came among them.
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The Lord said to the Adversary, “Have you thought about my servant Job; surely there is no one like him on earth, a man who is honest, who is of absolute integrity, who reveres God and avoids evil?”
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The Adversary answered the Lord, “Does Job revere God for nothing?
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Job passes the test
One day Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house.
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A messenger came to Job and said: “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing nearby
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Job arose, tore his clothes, shaved his head, fell to the ground, and worshipped.
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In all this, Job didn’t sin or blame God.
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Job’s Adversary refuses to give up
One day the divine beings came to present themselves before the Lord. The Adversary also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
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The Lord said to the Adversary, “Have you thought about my servant Job, for there is no one like him on earth, a man who is honest, who is of absolute integrity, who reveres God and avoids evil? He still holds on to his integrity, even though you incited me to ruin him for no reason.”
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The test intensifies
The Adversary departed from the Lord’s presence and struck Job with severe sores from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
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Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself and sat down on a mound of ashes.
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Job’s wife said to him, “Are you still clinging to your integrity? Curse God, and die.”
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Job said to her, “You’re talking like a foolish woman. Will we receive good from God but not also receive bad?” In all this, Job didn’t sin with his lips.
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Job’s three friends come to comfort him
When Job’s three friends heard about all this disaster that had happened to him, they came, each one from his home—Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah. They agreed to come so they could console and comfort him.
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They sat with Job on the ground seven days and seven nights, not speaking a word to him, for they saw that he was in excruciating pain.
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Job responds differently
Afterward, Job spoke up and cursed the day he was born.
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Job said:
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Job laments his misfortune
Why didn’t I die at birth, come forth from the womb and die?
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Eliphaz tries to comfort Job
Then Eliphaz, a native of Teman, responded:
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Job defends his anger
Job responded:
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Job wants to be left alone
But I won’t keep quiet; I will speak in the adversity of my spirit, groan in the bitterness of my life.
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Hymnic praise
Job responded:
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Job wants an arbitrator
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee and don’t experience good.
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