Job 1-10... OHHH what a great man!

In the first chapter, first sentence, we run into a very interesting idea. Which introduces us to the amazing man that God sees in Job, this is how he's introduced: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil". I think that God leaves us with a really good impression of who Job is, I think I like this guy!

Now basically what we can foresee by reading this sentence is that job is a really nice and upright guy who eschews evil. You might not now what eschews means (neither did I), so just click on the word and it will take you to a definition. Read the definition and get back to me... Don't worry, I'll wait.

Are you done yet? nooo?? OK, I guess I can wait five more minutes, but hurry up.

Done? Fabulous, lets move on.

Job was a wealthy man and thus, he was a happy man: " His substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east". As you might have noticed he led a great life, but something was bound to go wrong, we all knew it. God starts to speak to Satan (bad guy) and lets himself be convinced by him, he allows Satan to destroy Jobs life, and God even does some harm to Job as well. God and Satan harm is so big that Job receives the bad news almost instantly:

[14] And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
[15] And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
[16] While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
[17] While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
[18] While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
[19] And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

The misery is such that Job throws himself on the ground miserably and prayed to God, and blessed his name, but never, and this is important to point out, charged God foolishly. I also find this to be very unfair because as God describes Job, he is a very good man that didn't really deserve what he got... Was it fair?

As I've explained previously Job had been tortured and harmed a lot, but what I really admire is that Job managed to keep his cool the whole time and never spoke ill of or cursed God, that is, until his friends arrived and convinced him of the contrary. I thought it was unfair (as I always do in the bible) that Job suffered, and worked hard to keep his cool and that suddenly his "friends" show up and "sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great".

I feel that it is necessary for me to say that I really admire Job when he says: "[2] Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
[3] For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up". OHHH what a great man!