Day 6 Job 1-5 Prosperity and calamity of Job, he curses his birth, it is laid to sin

Satan Before the Lord by Corrado Giaquinto, 1750 at Vatican Museums

Job 1-5

Job 1 Job, a just and perfect man, is blessed with great riches—Satan obtains permission from the Lord to tempt and try Job—Job’s property and children are destroyed, and yet he praises and blesses the Lord.

Job 2 Satan obtains permission from the Lord to afflict Job physically—Job is smitten with boils—Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar come to comfort him.

Job 3 Job curses the circumstances of his birth—He asks, Why died I not from the womb?

Job 4 Eliphaz reproves Job, asking such questions as, Are the righteous cut off? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 5 Eliphaz counsels Job: Man is born unto trouble, seek unto God, and happy is the man whom God corrects.

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