Job 1-10: Are Any Punishments Good?

God has to prove his servants and favored ones to see if they will really follow him trough the hard times. We have seen in past book of the Bible that God has tested his favorites like in the case of Abraham. God told Abraham that he had to kill his son and Abraham was about to kill him when an angel stopped him. Now God starts to test Job to see or proof that he can trust him. Of course God is also tempted by Satan to give these curses to Job, but I think this also will serve to God as a test. Job, on all the curses that God sent down on him, did not curse God and disrespect him. When God sent down a disease onto Job, Job gave up his fight and strength. Job started to stop wanting to live and to curse God. This part really reminded me of a movie that I don’t really remember how it is called, but a female boxer is left on a bed for live due to the outcome of a fight. She tries several times to commit suicide by biting her tongue, but fails. Finally her coach disconnects her because she asked him to and she dies. Job has a similar life to this he says that he has to stay at bed all day and he kind of loses hope. For me hope is the one thing that can’t and should never be lost. Without hope then you don’t have anything to live for. Finally we see that Job has very good friends that try to convince him of changing and to still hope for life and to don’t give up on God. They give him moral support and tell him things like “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth” Job 5, 17 this quote really symbolized for me not like a correction, but a teaching. For example if you are soccer player and an important player like Messi corrects you, you don’t take it like a reprimand, but more like a teaching from the master at the subject. The same happens with God. He is the ultimate goodness and love so if he punishes you, you should take it more like a teaching to be good