1/4/2021 0 Comments Job CommentaryThe Book of Job reads like an online chat room filled with headstrong, old men who insult each other in a Shakespearean style. Distilling such lavish poetic conversations into their salient raw emotions that the speakers are trying to convey have been a fun challenge. This oldest book in the Bible yields, with a little interpretation, a very human and understandable dialogue regarding the theme of suffering, to which every future generation can relate, no matter how many millennia they are removed from the original author. Job 1
Satan and God have a duel: Can God's children become Satan's? Job is characterized as extremely conscientious, and disciplined. There seems to be almost a disconnect between the description of his very great earthly prosperity and description of his character which is not stained with the idolatrous love of his earthly stuff. A child of God is about to be tested if his soul is truly devoted to God alone. Test 1: Does Job worship God for temporal fulfillments? Method: Take away all his legacy (his children) and his life earnings, and see. Result: He still worships. Conclusion: Job practiced the parable of the unrighteous steward for a long time (ref. Lk 16:1-13), and is able to see that all that he has is a stewardship from God. Footnote: It is not a sin to attribute to God the loss of Job's earthly possessions. Job 2 Test 2: does Job worship God for his personal health? Method: Make him miserable with sickness, and see. Result: The "unrighteous steward" will not badmouth the Owner. Conclusion: Job is very thoughtful and well prepared for this moment. He has been practicing this scenario of total calamity and his response to God in his mind for a long time. He probably is not a stranger to disasters of some degree in his past. Footnote: Job has well-meaning, compassionate friends who are willing to sit in the ashes for days. Job 3 The tests of Job's loyalty to God are technically over... But Job's suffering has no end in sight. Job, in the midst of the chaos and confusion, begins to break. Job wishes he had died in childbirth. Job commiserates with prisoners, slaves, and extremely fatigued souls in their search for their death. He sees more honour in being a dead miscarriage than being alive in God's living hell. Job 4,5 Eliphaz: Job, you have guided so many suffering people with wise words. But now you find yourself on the other side of the conversation. So now, you know what's going on, don't you? Nobody suffers such calamity from God without a just cause for it. But listen, don't be too hard on yourself. You are not alone in your experience. We are all sinners, and calamity is just the inevitable reaping for sinners due to their sowing sin, such as violence, jealousy, verbal manipulation to defraud, and oppression of the weak. Don't think the calamity is God's way of hating you. God cares about you enough to get your attention. If I were you, I would just return back to God. Try it, then you will find that you will again have lots of children, and protection from raiders. Job 6 Job: I just wish God would finish me off. I see no hope of happy ending. But my assurance is that I have lived my whole life with a clean conscience before God. I have no fear of punishment. I never asked you guys for any big favour. Then you come to comfort me, but you can't even do that properly so as to help me maintain my reverence for God. You are all afraid for yourselves, so you need to explain away this calamity. I challenge you to show me what I have done to bring about this calamity, then I'll concede. Where will you start? If you can't find anything, then will you try to find fault by picking apart the words of one who is in abject grief for its lack of theological correctness? Job 7 Job CONT'D: I can't sleep. I'm covered in filth. My entire life is one meaningless, short epic that is nothing but trouble and misery. My life is but a flash of a moment. So I am going to give full vent, while I can, toward God. God, am I some big, timeless, powerful force of nature that can withstand Your constant monitoring? I am an insignificant, puny human being that only lives for a moment; yet You have, for some unknown reason, decided to move earth and heavens to raise me up to Your scrutiny, and will not stop terrifying me. If it is because of my sinfulness, then I don't understand why You won't forgive me. Job 8 Bildad: Job, are you almost about done reacting emotionally to your calamity, and ready to face up to objective reason? Cause and effect, Job. Learn from the patterns of history. The people who turn to evil always don't end well, and are forgotten. You have to admit, if your sons did something to displease God, then what happened to them makes reasonable sense. Don't give up hope of turning things around for yourself, however. Beg God for His mercy, and return to doing right things before God, and He will restore you back to your former glory. Job 9 Job: In theory, I know the principle of sowing and reaping is the truth, and turning toward God and away from evil will reap blessing from God. But in reality, nobody can manipulate God to do anything. God does whatever He wills. He turns off the sun, He makes the earth quake, He sets the stars in the heavens. I see God allowing the evil people to prosper, and injustices to go undealt with. I see God refusing to come to the rescue of righteous people in their suffering. I see the good and the bad both ending in the same tragic ends. He does things that our simple principles cannot figure out. And I am supposed to try to talk to this God, as if He is obligated to change my circumstances around at my beck and call? Even if I prayed, and God did turn things around for me, how am I supposed to know it was in response to my prayer? I could accept my suffering as a natural part of living in this chaotic world, but I am now afraid that this God, who does whatever He wants, might have already judged me as wicked. And it is impossible to argue with God's judgment. Job 10 Job CONT'D: But I will not accept this judgment without a fight, though I know it is pointless to argue with God. Are You as limited as mere mortals in Your ability to discover man's secret evil ways? You know that I harbor no sin in my heart, but You would send me a calamity. I have no winning ticket. If I sin, You hold me to my guilt forever, and judge me as wicked. If I don't sin and do what is right, I still have to humbly accept Your judgment against me, otherwise You would judge me as wicked. You Yourself created me, and took care of me from my youth up. If You were going to destine my life to end like this, then it would have been better if I had died at birth. Now then, seeing my fate is sealed by Your judgment, let me have the last few days of respite on earth before I meet my doom. Job 11 Zophar: Job, do you think we will let you speak your self-righteous boasts and let you get away with it? God sees all the secret sins of man. I wish God would speak to you Himself and put you in your place. It is impossible to understand God's infinite wisdom and His ways...but what I understand is if you simply turn away from evil, order your life right before God, and pray for His mercy, then you would be restored back to your former station. But the evil people cannot change their fate, and they only wish for their death. Are you one of them, Job? Job 12,13 Job: You guys are the real deal, aren't you? The infinite wisdom incarnates. But for you who are only voyeurs of a calamity from across the river yonder in your leisurely station, you don't have to wrestle with the harsh reality of life: God creates all people, and He makes the wicked prosper. With regard to the knowledge of God, I am not inferior to you guys by any means: I know God is all wise, and all powerful. He causes draught, and flood. He destroys men beyond remedy. He controls the criminal element of society. He removes authority from kings. He brings the worshippers of God to poverty. He takes away credibility from leaders. He makes weak the strong. He makes high, He makes low. But I'm done talking with you guys. I want to speak directly to God. Do you think God will allow you to remain safe after your pathetic attempt to get God off the hook? I don't care if God kills me; I will still be waiting for my vindication. I have confidence that God knows where my allegiance lies. I know He is my sure future. I know truth will be revealed, that my humiliation is undeserved. Only if You would stop terrorizing me, then we can talk reasonably with each other: Just exactly how many wicked sins have I committed? Is this because of something I did when I was a child? Is a pitiful little by-product of life like me worth the trouble of a search-and-destroy mission? Job 14 Job CONT'D: Man lives only a few days, as determined by God. Then God frowns upon him because he is a sinful being, and makes his few days miserable. O, how I wish You would take my life now, and bring me back to life when Your anger is exhausted! Then all the records of sin of my previous life would not apply to me. But alas, You indifferently take away all hopes of living a second time, and the dead inevitably become completely separated from all living family forever. Job 15 Eliphaz: It is almost unbecoming to even dignify such nonsensical talk by arguing against it. The way you respond to God's gentle call for your repentance through our voices betrays your guilt. Job, admit it already. Otherwise, you are denying the fundamental truth that man is utter sinful before God. Heed to the wisdom of the elders, proven and tested for generations: the one who rebels against God's ways lives a short, painful, paranoid life, is met with sudden unexpected calamities, and loses his prosperity. Or do you know something that we don't that you have some other explanation for your calamity? Were you born before time began? Does God reveal things to you directly? Job 16 Job: And what compels you to keep responding to me with your nonsense? If we traded places, I could just as well probe you with presumptuous accusations; or I could bring you encouraging consolations, which I am not at all getting from you incompetent comforters. God yet remains my witness that I have offered him proper worship and have done no evil to deserve this calamity. Only if it were possible to contact Him and work this misunderstanding out, before I die. My calamity is proof of God's anger against me. God's face is utterly savage toward me, and He mercilessly tears me to pieces wave after wave, so I have nothing left, not even my dignity. What more have I got to lose by staying silent? I hope my tragic story echoes on for generations. Job 17 Job CONT'D: I am done with this life. I have no hope of vindication or restoration: God made me into a contemptible scum to my community. But I have no worries that when the true worshippers of God will hear of my unjust calamity, that they will remain faithful to God. And that is despite the fact that He has hidden the reality of the situation from everyone, and God knows the evaluations of the slanderers are false. What is more, God will punish the ones who bear false witness against their suffering friend. But let's go again, friends. Go ahead, say whatever you want. Your useless talk has zero effect on me. But I will see You in heavenly court. Job 18 Bildad: When are you going to stop talking, and listen to reason? Do you think just because you are morally outraged, that you have any power to change the reality at all? The evil have their own evil coming to them. They die prematurely, they get sick, their livelihood is decimated, their posterity are nowhere. This is the fate of the one who has no redemptive relationship with God. Job 19 Job: And when will you stop bringing a false charge against me? Even if I am suffering due to sin, it would be impossible for you to know. God has alienated me from my wife, my relatives, and all my close friends. I am scorned by children. I have only narrowly escaped death after God's army besieged my life to obliterate everything in it. So instead of your attempt to further torment such a disaster survivor by heaping guilt, after all he has suffered through, please have some sympathy for him. I don't suffer due to sin, but due to God's unfounded anger. And be afraid of calamity yourselves: your evil haranguing for any pretext you can imagine against me will bring a bona fide calamity on yourselves. How I wish my story was recorded for all time! In any case, I know the One who redeems me from death will bring me back to life, and I will be with Him forever. Job 20 Zophar: I'm sorry, but I cannot help but respond to your insult. You don't know this, do you: That the lifetime of the proud, wicked man, with all his desires and youthful vigor, will be cut short like a bad dream. While in the middle of enjoying his spoils he robbed from the poor, God will end him and his entire household, and there is no loophole out of God's policy of His just dealing with wicked man. Though he may hide his evil secrets, the entire universe makes his guilt plain. Job 21 Job: Let me tell you something. Be quiet, and listen. Then you may go back to your insulting me. I know what your argument is: the wicked never finds security, but only misery in life. Yes, that is sometimes true. Yes, there will certainly be a final doom for the wicked. But why don't you ask the voyagers what they have seen in all the societies of the world: The wicked man has no fear of God, does not give Him thanks, refuses even to learn God's ways. But in this life, God restrains His wrath, and gives them health, wealth, and healthy children. And when they die in ripe old age, their entire community participate in a memorial to honour their life, and their cemetery is well cared for. If you don't have a clue about these things, then how can you tell me what to do? Are you going to teach God your "sow and reap" principle, and teach Him how to deal with the wicked? Job 22 Eliphaz: Job, you can work yourself up to believing in your own innocence, but it doesn't change anything. Your calamity speaks for itself. Come on now, and come clean. It is obvious that you have done evil things: You probably have taken your own kin to court and exacted a heavy penalty without mercy. You have disregarded the care of the poor, and the disenfranchised. And you thought God doesn't know what you have done. Only one thing is left for you to do: come back. Listen to God's laws, and turn from your evil ways, and toward God. Let go of worshipping your wealth, and see God as your source of blessing instead. Only then, you will be restored. Job 23 Job: Where is God... Only if I could come before my Judge, and plead my innocence before Him! He won't try to intimidate me into silence by His might, and He will hear me out. I cannot see God with my naked eye, but I know that God sees my entire life, how I have kept myself in obedience to His word. Yet despite my innocence, God does to me what He has long planned to do according to His own free will. Yet after all this, God will vindicate me. I am equally terrified of God's exacting judgment, as well as hopeful in God's vindication. Job 24 Job CONT'D: Why on earth doesn't God allow His followers to see His immediate retribution against the evil people? They corrupt the customs to steal the property of the weak and the defenceless, leaving them without shelter or food. They work their evil under the cover of darkness, thinking they can get away. They murder, they steal, they practice marital infidelity. Yet God turns a blind eye. God will surely give them their just dues, but only when they safely reach the other side of death, where we can't spectate on His justice. If this is not the reality, then I don't know what is. Job 25 Bildad: Well, God has a right to punish any man. God is too elevated to consider any man as pure. Job 26 Job: What on earth are you on about? What a really helpful observation! What do I know? Compared to you wise men, everything I know about God has only been from distant rumours. All I know about God is that He sees the deepest and darkest secret, He makes the ground to hover in space, He stores up water in the clouds, He divides the light from darkness across the oceans by a spherical boundary, He causes mountains to shake, He breaks the harsh waves of the sea, His power makes all the stars to stay in their place. Job 27 Job CONT'D: I will never yield to your accusatory speeches. I have lived my life with a clear conscience to this day, and will continue to do so till I die. If I were living a secretly God-hating life, would I still be hoping in God to vindicate me? Those who slander me are equally as evil as the wicked. And you know how the wicked are treated: God will kill their sons, all their riches will be taken from them, their residence will be destroyed, and their neighbours will celebrate their doom. Job 28 Job CONT'D: Even the rarest jewels of earth can be harvested if man tries hard enough: blasting rocks, damming up rivers, swinging by ropes, whatever else. But wisdom cannot be found anywhere, not even in the deepest depths of ocean, not the land of the living or the dead. Man does not know anything about wisdom - this art of living a righteous and successful life - except through what God has revealed. With wisdom, God measures out wind, and waters of the ocean. God measures out rain, and guides the thunderbolt. He has perfect knowledge, and He decisively accomplishes his plan without wavering. The only thing that God has revealed about this art of wisdom is this: revere Him and turn away from evil. Job 29 Job CONT'D: Only if I could go back in time, when God was my friend, and I was safe from all dangers. Then I was living in luxury with my children, and well respected and esteemed by my community, young and old, high and low. Whenever I spoke, everyone would shut their mouths and listen. I was a saviour to the orphans and widows, the ones about to die from destitution, because I took care of their every need, and fought against bullies for their rights. I was a comforter to the mourners. I thought all my righteous deeds would secure my luxury and health till I die. Job 30 Job CONT'D: But now that God has kicked me down deep into the mud, I even have become a joke for contemptible scoundrels who live on the fringe of society. God, what contempt You must feel for me that You ignore my begging for Your help! Even I was not that cruel, but when I saw someone in destitution, I sympathized with them, and helped them. And here I am, in constant aches and pain, completely forsaken. Job 31 Job CONT'D: God is supposed to know every little thing about me, and evaluate me with all fairness. Well, then may God see me, and destroy me as He does the wicked, if I deserve it. I hide nothing. I have not lusted after another woman. I have not refused to hear out complaints from my slaves. I compensated fairly all my workers. I did not allow one person under my care go hungry. I have given hospitality to strangers. I have looked after the destitute, the orphans and the widows. I have neither seen money as my source of well-being, nor yielded to other forms of idolatrous worship. I did not even do so much as wish evil upon my enemies, or cheer when they died. I have kept my fear of God, who is the great leveler of men, great and small. I demand God to answer me! Job 32 Job's conscience remains clear after taking on repeated scrutiny from his friends. The three friends of Job, more like three hecklers who have done nothing to empathize with or console Job, finally have nothing further to say after insulting him in every possible way. Then here comes one baby-faced youngster Elihu, and he is about to explode with ferocious verbosity, and ready to put everyone including Job in their place with his mighty wisdom. Job 33 Elihu: Now listen to me, Job. Correct me if I am at all wrong. But I am on your side. I want you to know I believe what you say. You say, "God is on a mission to invent any pretext to hold me guilty of something, even though I have lived my life with integrity." You also complain that God does not tell you the reason for what happens in life. But is God obligated to give you an explanation? Yes, God does speak and give wisdom for the benefit of the soul, but just not in the way anybody might notice. He may do so through dreams, or through pain and sickness, or through a heavenly messenger, all to bring men back to walking in God's way. Job 34 Elihu CONT'D: I mean, seriously, let's really think about this. Try to be objective here. Job is insisting that his suffering is unjustified. But Job's attitude is like that of the wicked, because he is quoted as saying, "Revering God brings no profit to man." But if you are wise, you will listen to me carefully: God never makes mistakes. He makes a man reap exactly what he sows. He is the infallible justice itself, and there is no higher court. He gives partiality to no one for whatever reason, whether rich or poor, strong or weak. Oh, and there is no secret that a man can hide from God. When God judges, He does not need to hear anyone out, as if He does not already know everything there is to know about them. Without even investigating, He destroys the men who disregard His way, so that no evil ruler may rule the lands. And so, no nation or individual can go against His verdict, whatever it is. I mean, seriously, do you really expect God to stop dealing out His heavy chastening on a man at the moment the guy taps out, and begs God, saying "I promise never to do it again", thus he is spared from all the bitter consequences of his sins? If I were to consult a wise man, he would tell me, "But Job is not even at the point of begging God. Let God continue His chastening on Job. He clearly hasn't learned to come clean." Job 35 Elihu CONT'D: Job, you say that you are more right than God. You say that there is no benefit to living according to God's way. Have you considered this: whether you do right or sin, you cannot affect God? God is far removed from any affair of men, that the only beings that you end up affecting either negatively or positively are other human beings like you. But when God does bring calamity and when men cry out to Him, He may refuse to answer them because of their arrogance. No wonder He doesn't answer you, Job, when you are going one step further and saying stuff like, "I lost patience with God." But the only reason you are breathing, and able to rant and rave is because God has not unleashed the full punishment on you. Job 36 Elihu CONT'D: But wait, there is more I want to say in God's defense, and my words are all true. God is powerful, but He does not keep people under His thumb. He slays the wicked, and He protects the afflicted. He always keeps an approving eye for those who do right, but when they go astray and get caught in their own pride, God gently rebukes them and calls them to return. If they listen, they will have a happy life. If they don't, they will die for their willful ignorance. But that's just the way of life for the wicked: they are given a fair warning, but they continue in their obstinance, and refuse to call out to God. Make no mistake: God always delivers the afflicted, but He uses the affliction to teach the afflicted something, and to draw the afflicted to seek after Him. So, do not let your sense of self-righteous indignation become a contempt for God. Seek after God, and trust in His teaching, since He never does wrong. Remember, people sing all kinds of songs about God's handiwork, like how He mysteriously makes the clouds rain and makes crops to form. Believe me, you will be singing in a few years about how God dealt with you. Job 37 Elihu CONT'D: God controls rain, lightning, and thunder, and He does it either to chasten, or show kindness. Job, you don't know how God does any of these things, and yet you presume to know how to approach God in order to argue your case? You are talking about the God who never perverts justice, and never does wrong. You approach Him so at your own peril. Job 38, 39, 40, 41 God, who identifies Himself as the covenant-keeping God (Yahweh the faithful God of Israel), finally shows up. The God of all compassion and wisdom, who holds all the answers, now speaks to a soul who is suffering with much anger, confusion and a clear conscience. God: What is this human that is making all this ignorant chatter? Suck it up then, and stand up to the full height of your stature. Since you know more than I, I will ask you, and you teach Me the answers. Where were you when I was building the lands, while the heavenly beings were all rejoicing at My creation? I was looking for your counsel. O that's right, I did not create you yet. Who put the boundaries on the ocean waters, and made clouds? Have you ever in your life made the sun to rise on the rotating earth, so the wicked scatter away into the darkness? Have you walked on the ocean floor, or journeyed into one of submarine volcano vents? Do you know how wide the earth is? Where does light comes from? Where does darkness comes from? You must know all the answers, since you are as old as time itself. Have you been inside the clouds where snow or hail is stored? Which directions are light refracted? What are the trajectories of the winds? Who causes the flood? Who guides the thunderbolt? Who brings forth rain on a barren land, and makes it green? Who makes water to freeze? Who leads the celestial bodies in formation throughout the seasons? Do you know physics? Can you call down the rain at will? Can you call down lightnings? Who makes knowledge and wisdom to stick in the mind? Who knows how to dole out the amount of rain to make the dirt just about stick? Can you deliver game to all the hungry lions to their satisfaction? Who tracks down all the ravens to provide their food? Do you know how to manage the mountain goat population? Who takes care of the wild donkeys in the wilderness? Do you have enough strength to tame a wild ox, so he does what you want? God withholds from ostriches any sense of honour, so they don't even care for their young. Are you the one who gives the war horse his strength and his thirst for battle? Are you the one who gives the hawk his navigational powers? Are you the one who tells the eagle to nest in cliffs? His eyes pick out his prey from afar, and feed his young. Is Mr. Moral Police still feeling sure he can find fault with God? Answer the question. ---- We can only imagine what Job must be feeling: it may be like the feeling of a man with a fear of height when he stands on a narrow ledge of a cliff and surveys a panoramic view of the Grand Canyon: awe mixed with mortal fear. The view is breath-taking, but one wrong move on the precipice would result in a horrific end. ---- Job: I am a nobody. There is nothing I can say. God: Man up. Keep standing in front of Me. I have more questions to ask you since you know all the right answers. Do you really want to butt heads with Me about My decisions? Do you want to say that you are right, and that I am unjust? Are you as strong as God? Can you speak with a thunderous voice like God? Anoint yourself and become a king. Give yourself authority and power. Survey out all the proud ones, and humble them at will. Destroy all the wicked where they stand. Then I will concede that you also can rule the world. Look closely at the land creature I created. He feasts on vegetation like an ox. He stiffens his tail like a cedar. He is a bundle of massive muscles and unbreakable bones. He is chief among God's creatures. His Maker has equipped him with a deadly sword. He takes rest under the shade of lotus trees. He hides in the reeds and marsh. He can confidently navigate through the turbulent waters of the Jordan, though his head is submerged. He faces the waters with open eyes, but his nose is above the waters. How about the Dragon? He feels zero reverence for anything. Can you stop his tongue from slander? Can you ever tame him, and make him a pet for the amusement of little girls? Is he ever available for sale? Does he ever need to ingratiate himself to you? Will he ever need to make a truce with you? His impenetrable pride makes him refractory to admonishments and rebuke. His heart is callous, unfeeling, indifferent, and unappeasable. His haughty eyes look on everything higher than him. He breathes fires of iniquity, and his eyes are like the glow of a dawn. Behind his trails, he leaves turmoil and disturbance in the otherwise tranquil kingdoms and nations. If you somehow survive a fight with the creature, you will never want to do it again. No man is bold enough to dare invoke his presence. What man is there then who can stand against Me? Everything under heaven is Mine. To whom do I owe anything? Job 42 As the weight of the reality of who he was challenging all along finally breaks him down, Job suddenly finds no more justifiable reason to charge God with unfairness, or demand an explanation. He voluntarily resigns his case, and he becomes serene before the almighty God. Yet nothing in Job's station has changed. In fact, Job is still sitting in his ashes, he is still covered from head to foot in painful sores, all his livelihood are still gone, his children are all still dead, and he is still without any answers as to why he was suffering. Nevertheless, there is one thing that has seen a dramatic change due to the encounter with God that was sufficient for Job to simply bow before his Creator's will. Job: I know nothing can stop Your will, and You will accomplish all Your purposes. What is this human making all the ignorant chatter? I have uttered it, at the loss of hearing real wisdom. Allow me then to ask You, and You teach me. I have only learned about You through oral traditions. But now, I have actually seen You for who You are. Therefore, I repent. Repenting means a change so deep and thorough, that one could say it is like a change of the caterpillar to a butterfly. In a sentence, repenting is a change of the innermost belief, emotion, and will. For Job, it was not a change from living a secret God-defying life. It was a change of his sense of entitlement due to his righteous living to a sense of unworthiness before the all-wise Creator, regardless of his righteous living. It was a change of his self-righteous confidence to a feeling of shame for being confident in the first place. It was a lesson well learned for this most godly man of his time, that the infinitely holy and righteous God does as He wishes with what is His own, and He does not need to justify His actions to anyone, as if there is such thing as justice outside of Himself. And through this lesson, Job finally finds the consolation that he was seeking after: the answer to his anxiety. Although God does not give Job an answer as to the real reason for his calamity, Job now knows that his calamity is not due to a God-dishonouring practice, and that it is not a form of God's judgment. In this, God vindicates Job's life of integrity. God now turns His attention to Job's friends, with the exception of Elihu, and God rebukes them. God is hot angry with how they have taken His name in vain, that is, misrepresenting God. They were saying to Job that God was punishing him for living a secret life of sin when, in fact, God wasn't, hence painting God as unjust. Ironically, God appoints for them the man, whom they have been so tirelessly offending, as their mediator who will offer up sacrifices on their behalf, so that their blasphemy against God may be forgiven; in so doing, God vindicates Job before his entire community, and makes his friends apologize to Job. Epilogue: When Job performs his priestly duty for his friends, God turns back the time for Job. All the Job's relatives come out of the woodworks, and socialize with him once again. Everything Job had lost is restored in double. He had 7000 sheep, he now has 14000. He had 3000 camels, he now has 6000. He had 7 sons and 3 daughters. He now curiously has 7 sons, and 3 daughters, because unlike the animals, Job had never really lost his children, but one day will be reunited with them. Then Job dies a good death, happy and satisfied, a wise mentor to the fourth generation of his kids.
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