Chapter Two, Job's Health and Job's Friends
Jul 30, 2024 18:04:01 GMT -8
Post by The Ninevite on Jul 30, 2024 18:04:01 GMT -8
One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro upon the earth, and from walking up and down on it." The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him for no reason." Then Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! All that people have they will give to save their lives. But stretch out your hand now and tough his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face." The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, he is in your power, only spare his life." So, Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. Job took a potshard with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes. Then his wife said to him, "Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God and die." But he said to her, "You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Job's wife was probably a little bit pagan, people tended to be during the fall of Jerusalem. She seems to have been a lot more loyal to him as a woman than the three friends were as men, but somewhat more importantly, the repetition of the meeting between God and Satan about Job and the ownership of the earth with variations from chapter one to chapter two is often invoked as an archetypal passage, and an archetypal passage is one that seems to repeat thematically along the Biblical timeline from story to story. Job and Job's wife are "the same as Adam and Eve", and the notion of human equality in the American founding relies very heavily on the fact that when spiritual events occur and reoccur in the Bible, the main characters both good and evil exhibit nearly identical responses to them in their own times. This is, indeed, is the very basis of moral law in human context, those by Kings and by Congresspeople, the factual basis of the Department of Justice itself. In spite of the temper of her times and the enslavement assault of Job's wife, it is unlikely that she was in fact silly, as Job is described as pious and wouldn't have married a fool. Aristotle once commented that man is ruled by his passions, and that is true, as has been noted by a demonary legion of spies, agents provocateur, spirit conjuring prognosticators and psychologists. Job's religious practice is describes as being pro posterity, and his wife's passions were no doubt heavily bound up in the sons and daughters as well, but she may have prayed her private prayers differently, as first of all she had already labored in childbirth, and secondly, he was the one who was the patriarch.
Now when Job's three friends heard all of these troubles had come upon him, each of them set out from his home--Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go console and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads. They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
We already know that Job's three friends aren't really his friends, but how can we demonstrate that from the record of what they say? Job's three friends are the basis of Jungian thought, as well as a few other notable aberrations in philosophy and pseudo-doctoral work. I'll begin by comparing them to Kora, Dathan, and Abiram, who died in an earthquake for trying to steady the ark. Job was a priest of his family, and he had the law memorized. as David said, "Thy law have I his in my heart, that I might not sin against thee." Thusly also lived also the prophet Job.
Job's wife was probably a little bit pagan, people tended to be during the fall of Jerusalem. She seems to have been a lot more loyal to him as a woman than the three friends were as men, but somewhat more importantly, the repetition of the meeting between God and Satan about Job and the ownership of the earth with variations from chapter one to chapter two is often invoked as an archetypal passage, and an archetypal passage is one that seems to repeat thematically along the Biblical timeline from story to story. Job and Job's wife are "the same as Adam and Eve", and the notion of human equality in the American founding relies very heavily on the fact that when spiritual events occur and reoccur in the Bible, the main characters both good and evil exhibit nearly identical responses to them in their own times. This is, indeed, is the very basis of moral law in human context, those by Kings and by Congresspeople, the factual basis of the Department of Justice itself. In spite of the temper of her times and the enslavement assault of Job's wife, it is unlikely that she was in fact silly, as Job is described as pious and wouldn't have married a fool. Aristotle once commented that man is ruled by his passions, and that is true, as has been noted by a demonary legion of spies, agents provocateur, spirit conjuring prognosticators and psychologists. Job's religious practice is describes as being pro posterity, and his wife's passions were no doubt heavily bound up in the sons and daughters as well, but she may have prayed her private prayers differently, as first of all she had already labored in childbirth, and secondly, he was the one who was the patriarch.
Now when Job's three friends heard all of these troubles had come upon him, each of them set out from his home--Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go console and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads. They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
We already know that Job's three friends aren't really his friends, but how can we demonstrate that from the record of what they say? Job's three friends are the basis of Jungian thought, as well as a few other notable aberrations in philosophy and pseudo-doctoral work. I'll begin by comparing them to Kora, Dathan, and Abiram, who died in an earthquake for trying to steady the ark. Job was a priest of his family, and he had the law memorized. as David said, "Thy law have I his in my heart, that I might not sin against thee." Thusly also lived also the prophet Job.