Word of the Post: Unfair

For me, Job is sad. It is so mean. I don't like it, because it is the using of a human for personal gain and purposes. This quote shows how unfair it is: "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: 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 (1:19)." This is saying that God basically made Job's life miserable because he didn't believe in him. It is very unfair, that just because he wants to be more powerful than Satan, he does that. On and by the way it is the first time that Satan is mentioned in the Bible. I, being a Buddhist, would have thought that Satan would be a lot more mentioned than he is.

After this, something very unfair also happened. Satan, wanting to be more powerful than God, also took advantage of the situation. He, after God had make Job's life difficult, Satan got involved and decided to put his part also in making his life more difficult than before. "So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown."

After this, you can see that it was very difficult for him to get over it. He is in an extremely depressed state, and not even his friends can make him feel better.

I think Eliphaz the Temanite, one of his friends, is very intelligent because what he said was very cool and I think it really gave strength to Job. He was not mean like God and Satan, which I am very mad at right now. Anyways, it didn't really work, because Job never came out of his depression.

I think he is a little extreme. "After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived (3:3)" But of course, who am I to judge? I've never really been cursed by both God and Satan so...

But seriously, he is way too depressed. He should take an antidepressant or something. "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope (7:6)" He should or get over it, or kill himself (I don't personally recommend the second option).

You can see that even Job himself agrees with me; "I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul (7:11)." He is accepting that the only thing he will do about it is complain.

So this is what Job is about, I don't know how it has anything to do with the rest of the Bible, but I will leave Christians to decide that themselves. I am really disappointed in God (although I did expect it from Satan), and I would have thought He had a stronger personality than that. But oh well, let Him be.