The Job

It’s the first time Satan is mentioned in the Bible. His character in the Bible is exactly like I have always interpreted him. Mean, competitive, and dark are word I would use to describe him. It’s like his source of power comes from the suffering of God. I recently saw the Clash of the Titans and thought this was very Hades and Zeus. While Zeus believes in power through love, Hades believes in power through pain and suffering. When Satan gets his kicks on God is not happy. I wonder if the reference for the whole Zeus and Hades relationship was based out of the Bible somehow. I mean according to the Bible man always knew there was God but how did the Greeks invent their Gods? Anyway Satan and God have a relationship based on overpowering and if I was to put Satan in a modern context, he would so be a drug dealer. Why? Drug dealers live out of the pain and suffering of other.

“After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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3:2 And Job spake, and said,
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3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
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3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it”

I wonder if this was the first official time cursing God happened. Job blames all his suffering on God and we still continue seeing this. Maybe back in the day it was really bad but now we turned it into a common thing. Think about it. Here they make a huge deal about how Job is cursing God but in our day to day lives we often say phrases like: Holly Crap or Por Dios. Have we really lowered our respect towards God that phrases that could have once made us tremble in fear, are now part of everyday speech?

“Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
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4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.”

I found this interesting because it talks about seeing negative things in God. It’s like Job was getting peer pressured into completely losing his faith in God. I also enjoyed this quote because it talks about how we can’t expect to excel God because he himself doesn’t give anyone the chance to excel. In a way it talks about how unworthy we are of even thinking about overpowering our maker.

God is a type of weapon. You know how when you were little you would threaten to tell the teacher about anything? You could intimidate with God. You could go: Hey I’ve been a pretty good guy all my life and you just stole my chips, you are so going to get clothed with shame and dwell in a place of wickedness. They even mention it here in the book of Job how if you are good you get repaid and if you’re bad you don’t. It is very Santa Clause.

“Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
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8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
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8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.”

Another aspect I thought about of in this text was about seeing the good and bad in people. If you think about it most days of our life we are judging those around us. Here we have Job and his friends seeing both the good and the bad about God. This part reminded me of a debate and how opposite views can be. God is truly a mystery man will never unravel.