Waverly Church of Christ

I don’t believe that any of us know how we would respond to God if we found ourselves in Job’s place.  In one day, without warning, Job lost almost everything in his life: a. All of his livestock — 1,000 oxen, 500 female donkeys, 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels and all but three of the servants tending them. b. His seven sons and three daughters and all of the servants with them except for one. Shortly thereafter, Satan afflicted Job with boils over his entire body. Three of Job’s supposed friends — Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar — came from a distance to comfort him. However, their comfort was more of a concerted effort to convince Job that he had sinned and that he should confess his sin and ask God to forgive him. Throughout all of this, Job protested his innocence and sought an audience with God to ask Him why all of this had happened. Finally, a whirlwind appears, and God begins to speak out of the whirlwind.