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To: Elsie
God did. Verse 3 ends: though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason, after that it's Satans turn (Job's life is already pretty messed up by Chapter 2). And anyway regardless of which one took the active hand God still thought it was OK to mess up the guys life to win a handshake bet with the Devil.

I know a lot of people read Job when they have a crisis in faith and are renewed. I read it when I had a crisis in faith and was aghast. Even if I believed in God, thanks to the Book of Job I would never worship Him.

592 posted on 01/04/2002 9:21:36 AM PST by discostu
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To: discostu
Why doesn't ANYONE read 'til the END of the story??????????

Job 42
 10.  After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.
 11.  All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver  and a gold ring.
 12.  The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
 13.  And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
 14.  The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
 15.  Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
 16.  After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
 17.  And so he died, old and full of years.

597 posted on 01/04/2002 9:26:53 AM PST by Elsie
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