Could You explain where you came to the conclusion that Job failed in his faith...My bible say on many occasion that during Job's long suffering he kept faith in God... Job 19:25-27..Job's test was to see if he was ever going to speak down on the lords name....and He never did that...time and time again adversity would come up Job's wife told him to speak down on God, job's friends yet he kept focused and prospered in the end....it was a test to see how faithful Job was...it clearly says that God hand picked Job b/c he knew Job was a good man and would let the devil get to him.......Jobs test was to show his divotion, his character in God and his willingness to stay strong in HIS faith in Jesus...regardless of what happens...and he did that...thats what my bible says......
Dude, you seem not to have read the book yourself, only to have accepted what someone else has told you. Job's wife does tell him to "curse God and die", yes. But Job's friends
never tell him such a thing. Job's three "friends," each in their own way, say that God is never wrong, never unjust, and therefore if Job is suffering it must be because of something that he did. THAT is when Job gets mad. Does he curse God? Perhaps not. But he definitely questions God's goodness and fairness, wonders why the evil are rewarded while the good are punished, and challenges God to justify God's actions.
And let's be clear, I didn't conclude that Job failed in his faith. My argument is that
*IF* you think that Job's torments are due to God testing to see whether he's "really dedicated," and would stand by God no matter what happened,
then Job failed the test.
Chapter 19:
Then Job answered: 2 "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? 4 And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. 5 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me, 6
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me. 7
Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered;
I call aloud, but there is no justice. 8 He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. 9 He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. 11 He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary. 12 His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
Chapter 21:
1 Then Job answered: 2 "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation. 3 Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me,
is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? 5
Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 6 When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh. 7
Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? 8 Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. 10 Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. 14 They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?' 16 Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Chapter 23
1 Then Job answered: 2 "Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. 3
Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would give heed to me. 7 There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.
Chapter 27
1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said: 2 "
As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter; 3 as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; 4 my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. 5 Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. 6 I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Chapter 30
16 "And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. 17 The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. 18 With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. 19
God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me. 21 Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me. 22 Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm. 23 Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
