Many Catholic investigators assign the book to the reign of Solomon; the masterly poetic form points to this brilliant period of Hebrew poetry. Others, including Protestant investigators, assign the work to the post-Solomon perod.
Lessons. The book provides an answer to the challenge made by Satan. There are people who will serve God even in adversity, for God is worthy of our praise in addition to the blessings He provides. The Book does not present definitive answers to why innocent people suffer, but does makes these points:
1. God’s workings are beyond man’s ability to understand. We must trust in God, no matter the circumstances.
2. Suffering is not always the result of our sin. The incorrect conclusion drawn by Job’s friends is that suffering is always a consequence of sin. Job proves this is not true.
3. Suffering may be allowed to compliment to one’s spirituality. God allowed Job to suffer to show Satan what kind of man he was. What great confidence God had in Job.
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It challenges the prevailing religious ideology of a retributive view, and attempts to explain why "bad things happen to good people.” However, in attempting to do so the book is preoccupied with the male situation, whereas Job’s wife is unnamed and hardly mentioned, yet fully suffers along with her husband. She is a co-sufferer, yet her concerns get no particular mention in the book. For example, apart from her concerns about her husband’s situation and her material and status losses, imagine her distress as a mother who delivered and brought up all her children, to then suffer the grief of their deaths. In these circumstances a feminist interpretation of the book seems entirely appropriate, but will that suffice, or can we also expect in the fuiture a colour criticism, queer criticism, minority criticism and disability
Lessons. The book provides an answer to the challenge made by Satan. There are people who will serve God even in adversity, for God is worthy of our praise in addition to the blessings He provides. The Book does not present definitive answers to why innocent people suffer, but does makes these points:
1. God’s workings are beyond man’s ability to understand. We must trust in God, no matter the circumstances.
2. Suffering is not always the result of our sin. The incorrect conclusion drawn by Job’s friends is that suffering is always a consequence of sin. Job proves this is not true.
3. Suffering may be allowed to compliment to one’s spirituality. God allowed Job to suffer to show Satan what kind of man he was. What great confidence God had in Job.
Conclusions …show more content…
It challenges the prevailing religious ideology of a retributive view, and attempts to explain why "bad things happen to good people.” However, in attempting to do so the book is preoccupied with the male situation, whereas Job’s wife is unnamed and hardly mentioned, yet fully suffers along with her husband. She is a co-sufferer, yet her concerns get no particular mention in the book. For example, apart from her concerns about her husband’s situation and her material and status losses, imagine her distress as a mother who delivered and brought up all her children, to then suffer the grief of their deaths. In these circumstances a feminist interpretation of the book seems entirely appropriate, but will that suffice, or can we also expect in the fuiture a colour criticism, queer criticism, minority criticism and disability