What does the book of Job mean to you?

Question

And don't give me a biblical answer. As a pagan, I like the book of Job. To me it is a person standing up for their beliefs regardless of the consequences. What does it mean to you?

Answer 1

I'm pagan myself, and I always saw it as a poetical metaphor of the fact that bad things happen to good people. Remember that he wasn't standing up for his beliefs, they were never under assault. The question was whether or not he would abandon his beliefs if things got bad enough. Further, if you recall, in the end, he did, and drew a rebuke from YHWH for so doing.

Answer 2

Well al righty then. Since you are a pagan that does not believe. Here is your answer: Job is loaded with scientific Facts that have been proven. Job 28: 25 talks about air mass, other passages contain the Earth's rotation the springs and depths of the sea before there was any instrument to measure the sea. the way light operates in time and space and has a record of fossils and dinosaurs that all of you prevail upon. psalms mentions the names of stars that were not found until the telescope some thousands of years later. Christians claim it as the inspired Word of God. Otherwise how exactly DId they know that?

Job teaches that we are all dependent on God for everything and to keep faith even when things are drastically hopeless.

Answer 3

The book of Job is a great answer to why bad things happen to good people. Job thought his own righteousness (and he was a good guy, by man's standards) would merit God's favor, and it did not. The Lord put him very soundly in his place. This is a book that shows man who he is before an almighty God. If anyone thinks he or she deserves heaven, here is your answer in black and white.

Answer 4

It is a book revealing God's total sovereignty in all aspects of the universe. Satan could do nothing without His permission. God is still in control even when our world is falling apart. It also shows Jobs faithfulness to God in that he never rejected God or lost his faith. It also shows we should be careful with advice from finite humans, since it is often wrong or unbiblical. Finally, God reveals Himself and His total sovereignty over the universe.

Answer 5

Let me understand you--you ask about a book in the Bible, but you don't want a Biblical answer. The book of Job is a book of opinions.

Answer 6

that God is not responsible for our suffering or the choices we make. Job had free will and he chose to love god and not curse him. Satan is the one who called into question his faithfulness.
Also, some people say he was bad is why he got cancer or fell, or got in a car wreck. JOb did nothing wrong and God allowed him to be tested and it was God who rewarded him. Not Satan.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people as in the case of Job. But it turned out well for him.
thousands of years later he is a household name while others of his generation are unknown to us. Plus he got everything back.
god rewards the faithful even if not at the moment.

Answer 7

For one thing, it shows that faith in God provides strength to
see one through problems in life some of us shudder to think
of facing. It also shows that there's a fantastic rainbow at the
end of the greatest storms.

Answer 8

Same thing but with Biblical implications.

Answer 9

It means no matter how bad things get as long as u have faith you will find the light at the end of the tunnel.

Answer 10

I'm not a pagan, but a Christian. Plus, why do you read the Bible if you are a pagan?