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Job
Chapter
02
{Chapters
1-2: Administration of Evidence Testing}
{Part
II -Verses 1-10: Loss of Health, Social life and Human Attractiveness}
1~~On
another day,
the
'sons of gods/'elohiym {angels}
came
to present themselves before Jehovah/God,
and
Satan came also among them
to
present himself before Jehovah/God.
{Ritual
of the Court Procedure is Repeated}
2~~
And Jehovah/God said unto Satan,
"From
where do you come?"
Then
Satan answered Jehovah/God, and said,
"From
roaming on the earth . . .
going
back and forth on it."
3~~
And Jehovah/God said unto Satan,
"Have
you considered my servant/slave {`ebed} Job,
that
there is none like him on the earth . . .
he
is 'blameless'/'with integrity' {tam}
{spiritually mature believer}
and
righteous/upright {yashar} one . . .
one
that has 'total respect for the authority of'/
fears/'loves
'Elohiym/Godhead,
and
shuns evil?
And
he still maintains his integrity,
though
you incited Me against him . . .
to
ruin him without reason/cause.
{Note: This is important to understand regarding evidence testing. Job did nothing to deserve this suffering. He was being tested for spiritual advancement. But, soon we will see his 'friends' will think he is a 'secret sinner' and is being disciplined by God! That is a difficult test to pass.}
4-5~~And
Satan answered Jehovah/God, and said,
"
'Yes, Job has nothing but his own health'
{Ancient Hebrew idiom: literally: 'skin for skin, yes'}."
"A
man will give all that he has for his own life; 5~~
but
stretch out Your hand,
and
strike/touch his flesh and his bones,
and
he will curse You to Your face."
{Motion
Granted by God}
6~~And
Jehovah/God said unto Satan,
"Behold,
he {Job} is in your hand;
but
you must spare his life."
{2nd
Test - Skin Cancer - Very Painful and Disfigured}
7~~
Satan went out from the presence of Jehovah/God,
and
smote Job with painful ulcers/cancers {ra` sh@chiyn}
from
the sole of his foot unto the top of his head.
{Note: Apparently part of Job's blessings included being very handsome. Now he is in great pain and also will be socially ostracized.}
{Verses
8-10: Job's Wife Becomes Part of Job's Painful Evidence Testing}
8~~And
he {Job} took
'a
piece of broken pottery' {cheres}
to
scrape himself with
{trying to medicate himself by scraping away some of the puss}.
And
he sat down among the ashes
{ashes probably indicate everything is gone - could also have
been a medical treatment for the skin cancer}.
{Nagging
Wife}
9~~Then
said his wife unto him,
"Are
you {Job} still hanging on to your integrity?
{she says this as a criticism -
so then she spits a vile blasphemy . . .}
{Why don't you} . . . Curse 'Elohiym/Godhead, and die."
{Note: This woman is a spiritual child. She probably loved the exterior of Job, but not his soul. She failed the test so she must not have had the doctrine in her soul to understand and apply 'impersonal love' in this case. She does not love him based on who and what she is. She only loves him when he 'looks good'.}
{Job
Passes Second Evidence Test}
10~~But
he said unto her
{from that integrity in his soul}
"You
are speaking as a foolish woman would speak.
Shall
we accept good at the hand of 'Elohiym/Godhead,
and
not trouble?"
In all of this, Job did not sin with his lips.
{Note: Job did not call her a name like lesser spiritually mature men certainly would have. Instead he states the fact - her 'thinking' is WRONG. Job did have integrity. And, we never hear from this wife of Job again. She steps off the scene. She could not handle it, so she moved off the scene. In Chapter 42, Job apparently has a new wife that he loves dearly - and he loves dearly the progeny of his second marriage.}
{Note: From this point on and for quite a while, Job does not do very well. He will fail his evidence testing.}
{Part
III -Verses 11 and following almost to the end of the book: Loss of
Friends and Maligning Test}
11~~When
Job's three friends:
Eliphaz
the Temanite
{Teman is in North-Western Arabia}
{Eliphaz was a fantastic theologian - but he was stuck on judging
others},
and
Bildad the Shuhite
{Shuh is just west of the Euphrates River and is an Arab tribe
descended from Abraham from his second wife -Ka-tur-a},
and
Zophar the Naamathite
{Naam was probably in Northern Arabia - near Chaldea}
{Zophar is the youngest and thinks he knows a lot - he can not
even agree with his friends who judge Job - he can not stand
to be told he is wrong - he is a jerk}
heard
of all the troubles
that
had come upon him {Job},
they
'left their homes'/'came every one from his own place' . . .
for
they had made an 'agreement to meet/'appointment together'
to
go and sympathize with him and to comfort him.
{Note: Nice to know their purpose (to sympathize and comfort) because this is the last time we will actually see it! They were well intentioned, but failed miserably from self-righteousness and crusader arrogance.}
12~~And
when they saw him from a distance,
they
'could hardly recognize him'/'knew him not',
they
began to weep aloud.
And
they each one tore his robe,
and
sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
{Note:
These were believers. They became emotional and now could not match
up the correct doctrine in their souls with the true situation. They
did not know all the facts. So, they will make wrong assumptions.
Principal: Wrong application of right doctrine distorts that doctrine.}
13~~They
sat down with him upon the ground
for
seven days and seven nights,
and
no one said a word {dabar} unto him
for
they saw how great his suffering was.
{Note: You can not sit for 7 days with someone in trouble and not think about the cause of their problems. This is the start of the failure of the three friends. They will turn from 'comfort' to 'counseling'. In their self-righteous arrogance, they will 'judge' Job as being sinful.}
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