He definitely seems to have lived before the time of Moses and the people of Israel perhaps even before Abraham. Job’s connection with God seems to be independent of any other Old Testament character. The author gives an impressive description of a man who is not perfect, but certainly complete in his devotion, respect, and obedience to God. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil: The first look at Job shows him to be an exceedingly righteous man. See a double testimony, for this, the one prophetical, Ezekiel 14:14, the other apostolical, James 5:11, and such a well-twined cord is not easily broken.” (Trapp)ī. “It is then, a true and real history that we here have of him, and not a fiction or a moral parable, as some have believed. In this drama, the Book of Job is not so much a record of solutions and explanations to this problem it is more a revelation of Job’s experience and the answers carried within his experience. Job must deal with the fact that in his life, God does not act the way he always thought God would and should act. The Book of Job is not primarily about one man’s suffering and pain Job’s problem is not so much financial or social or medical his central problem is theological. “It is fascinating to think that as we open this text we may be faced with the earliest of all written accounts of a human being’s relationship with Yahweh, the one true God.” (Mason) “The disgust expressed in Job’s remark that ‘ryr hlmwt is tasteless (Job 6:6) can be appreciated, even though we still do not know what that substance is.” (Andersen) The text of Job is so ancient that in some places we don’t really know the exact meaning of some of the words yet the general meaning is clear.
Its lesson, therefore, is the oldest lesson we could have and it takes us back to the first lesson taught in the Bible itself.” (Bullinger) It probably belongs to the period covered by the book of Genesis and possibly, to the time of Abraham. Judging by the style of the Hebrew it uses, some scholars judge Job to be the oldest book of the Old Testament. It may be that Job himself recorded his experiences in the book, or there may well have been another anonymous author. The author, date, and place of the Book of Job are all uncertain. As the first poetic book of the English Bible, Job introduces the reader to the idea of Hebrew poetry, which involves the repetition and combination of ideas more than sounds. The Book of Job is rightly understood to be a masterpiece of Hebrew poetry and Western literature. There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job: The Book of Job begins by introducing its central character and the man who perhaps wrote the book by recording his own experiences. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.Ī. So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East. And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.
Two stages for a great drama: earth and heaven.
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