Essay on The Holy Bible - Role of God in the Book of Job

The Changing Role of god in the Book of Job The Book of Job shows a change in Gods attitude from the generator to the end.At the beginning of the book, He is presented as Jobs protector and defender. At the end He appears as the supreme being lecturing and preaching to Job with hostility, notwithstanding the fact that Job never cursed his name, and never did anything wrong. Jobs only question was why God had beseeched this terrible disease on him. I intend to give way and discuss the different roles God played in the Book of Job. As the book opens, Job is Gods pride and joy, so to speak. Job was free of guilt, he feared God and shunned evil(11). God apparently thinks higher of Job than any other mortal. This is evidenced when he tells Satan that There is no one on Earth like him he is blameless and upright . . .(18). When Satan questions Jobs faith God allows him to test Job, as if to show off his favorite servant. This is an almost world quality in God--pride. Satans test in volves the total destruction of everything Job owns and lived for his children his animals, and his estate. Everything was destroyed but his wife, and of course the Four Messengers of Misfortune. In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing(122). God shows more of the human characteristic of pride when He meets with Satan again. God is almost gloating in this skeleton scene. He praises Job further and maintains that Job is loyal Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on Earth like him he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any rea... ...tried to make sense out of something they could not possibly understand. Gods elicit could have also been instigated by the assumption that Job was getting closer and closer to cursing Him. With each step of questioning, Jobs faith might have been starting time to be questioned. This would embarra ss God to Satan. The former seems to be the more obvious reason however, the later, my own observation can not be ignored. God exhibited human qualities in the beginning, like pride, and integrity, why would this God be immune to embarrassment? In any case, acknowledging that Job did not curse him in all of his misfortune, God once again returned to the status of Jobs protector, and Job once again became Gods favorite servant. God blessed the later part of Jobs life with double the fortune he had before and another ten children. Job lived a full life.