Comparing The Book Of Job And The Tree Of Life

In the book of Job and The Tree of Life they have a central philosophical core. That being the question Why is there suffering if God is all powerful, all knowing, and all loving God? In the book of Job we see the main protagonist of the book, Job, facing this powerful question when he has terrible misfortune put upon him. At first Job loses all of his livestock. At first he dealt with this as an accident but then when all of his children were killed he found himself asking this influential question. For about the whole book Job is asking God, his three friends and himself why the terrible things happened when he had always lived a godly life. He had never done anything wrong. In fact he was one of the only people, besides Jesus, to ever be called perfect. Since he had always been good its obvious why he would be so confused. It would be …show more content…
In his young life he unfortunately loses a numerous amount of people. He loses one of his friends after he drowns in a pool while Jack and his brothers watch. He later loses another friend in a fire. But, the loss that probably affected him the most was the loss of his nineteen year old brother. He found himself asking the same question in his confusion. In his confusion he became a vandal and broke into his neighbors house on several occasions. These acts that Jack commits is were The book of Job and The Tree of Life differ. Job instead of taking his confusion out on animal and others takes his confusion to God. He prays to God and refuses to curse him for what happened him. Jack instead becomes a vandal. The two stories have other likenesses as well. In the end of The Book of Job, Job gets everything doubled given back to him. Jack may not have had everything doubled but he is reunited with his family after everyone has long