These chapters tell the story of Job, a rich man with a big family that is really faithful to God. However, Satan comes up to God and tells him that Job wouldn't follow him is bad things happened to him. God, trying to prove that Job was his best follower, did bad things to him to test him. Job's children and animals are killed and his house is destroyed yet he still follows. His wife and friends tell him to curse God for all that He has done to him, but Job refuses. Three friends of his, Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar, come to talk to him and say that there has to be something Job has done to displease God.
Something interesting about this story is that it is not linked in any way to the other stories in the old testament. It is a tale of a guy that was not named before. And also God has to stop "testing" his people because they are starting to get out of hand. Kill all his children. Really? Might as well leave him limbless. But something strange I saw was it this: "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them." (Job 1:6)
Does that mean that Satan is one of God's children? And since when does He have children. This is all too strange. I thought Satan was like an angel or something. It is also the first time Satan is mentioned but you don't care about that.
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