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God then appears to Job and his friends out of a whirlwind. God rebukes the three friends and gives them instruction for the remission of sin, followed by Job being restored to an even better condition than his former wealthy state (Job 42:10–17). Job is blessed to have seven sons, and three daughters named Jemimah (which means "dove ...
Job (9:1–10:22) Being Righteous before God (9:1–4) ... Job is convinced that God knows Job is not guilty, that is, a "conviction born of his faith", so whereas he ...
A scroll of the Book of Job, in Hebrew. The Book of Job consists of a prose prologue and epilogue narrative framing poetic dialogues and monologues. [4] It is common to view the narrative frame as the original core of the book, enlarged later by the poetic dialogues and discourses, and sections of the book such as the Elihu speeches and the wisdom poem of chapter 28 as late insertions, but ...
This speech adds little because it seems like a mechanical repetition of what Eliphaz has said in his first two speeches (Job 4:17; 15:14; and concurred by Job in Job 9:2; 14:4) that no one is righteous before God and Job has accepted that he is a sinner, only that Job still questions his sufferings compared to other sinners. [14]
Bildad asked whether God perverts justice (מִשְׁפָּ֑ט) or righteousness (צֶֽדֶק Job 8:3), so in this chapter Job asks how a person can be righteous (יִצְדָּ֑ק) before God (Job 9:2), which refers back to Eliphaz's question in Job 4:17, but here in the sense of how one can "be in the right" before God, rather than "be ...
Job did not argue that God could not prevent evil. Job was observing that in this life God often chooses not to prevent evil. Conventional wisdom told Eliphaz that God should immediately punish the wicked as that would be the just thing to do. Job, however, saw it differently, and in 24:1, Job laments Why does the Almighty not set times for ...
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Answer to Job (German: Antwort auf Hiob) is a 1952 book by Carl Jung that addresses the significance of the Book of Job to the "divine drama" of Christianity.It argues that while he submitted to Yahweh's omnipotence, Job nevertheless proved to be more moral and conscious than God, who tormented him without justification under the influence of Satan.