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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).
Escaping from catastrophes, the trio witnesses Job and his wife receiving the reports of the calamities. Despite the calamities, Job continues to worship and serve God by sacrificing. Satan visits Heaven a second time to ask God for permission to plague Job's body, striking Job with boils that prompt Job's wife to contend to curse God and die.
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 ...
Job 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book is anonymous; most scholars believe it was written around 6th century BCE.
The satan appears in the Book of Job, a poetic dialogue set within a prose framework, [27] which may have been written around the time of the Babylonian captivity. [27] In the text, Job is a righteous man favored by Yahweh. [27] Job 1:6–8 [28] describes the "sons of God" (bənê hāʼĕlōhîm) presenting themselves before Yahweh. [27]
In the Book of Job the Council of Heaven, the Sons of God (bene elohim) meet in heaven to review events on Earth and decide the fate of Job. [49] One of their number is "the Satan ", literally "the accuser", who travels over the Earth much like a Persian imperial spy, (Job dates from the period of the Persian empire), reporting on, and testing ...
Satan asserts that Job is pious only because he is prosperous, and in response, God gives Satan permission to destroy Job's possessions and family. All of Job's possessions are destroyed and his offspring killed. Job's response is to worship the Lord. People: Job - יהוה YHVH - Satan - Sabeans - Chaldeans. Places: Land of Uz. Related ...
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.