After Job lost everything but his life, shouldn't God have apologized?

Question

What Job got was a tongue lashing. That's even more mean than allowing him to suffer like that. Doesn't this go against everything we say about how loving He is?

Answer 1

Even if Job had not received double what he lost, even if God had not revealed to Job His deal with Satan, even if Job never had a clue in his earthly exiostence, God still didn't "owe" Job an apology. He is, after all, God.

Part of faith is just believing that even when we don't understand what He is doing or why,
that we trust that "all things work together for good
*for those who love Him*
*and are called according to His purpose.* "

(those last 2 lines being the so-called money quote)

People often quote that first part, without the second, and it distorts the meaning, I am afraid.

Always enjoy your questions....

Answer 2

None are righteous - no not one and especially Job was not righteous. Job took a self-righteous attitude and God let him come down a few notches. Job owed everything that he had to God. Everything you have belongs to God even the breath you breathe. God is the Potter and you are the clay. Does not the Potter have a right to destroy the clay and start over? After all the clay would never become a pot without the Potter.
Also the Potter has every right to make good pots and bad pots.

What man forgets is ---truly who God is! As Creator, man has no argument, one way or the other.

Now do you understand why the devil pushes evolution and the origin of man from chance?

Answer 3

So, God makes mistake and he must apologized. Then God is not perfect. And worse of all he cover his mistake by lashing at Job. Thats what you understand from reading the book of Job. I tell you what I think of your understanding. I think God don't love you and he have allow your dull mind to funtion as it should be. Probally you are cursed so that your mind may not be able to comprehand the wisdom of the book. You can read the whole Bible but I guess you won't be able to understand. Not that you are stupid but the word of God is reveal only to His Beloved children in Christ. If you say you are a christian then I say you are a liar. For the Child of God knows the Father words. So get behind us.

Answer 4

Yes he got told off.. He needed it. The world is God's and everything in it. We have no right to anything. You must also remember that when Job came to understand this and confess that God was correct that Job was restored with far more than he had originally... How loving is that? Jim

Answer 5

God did in a round about way. He gave him more than what he had before. Job loved God, he didn't need an apology. What happened to Job was to prove to satan that Job loved God no matter what circumstances he was in, Job proved by giving God the glory even though he underwent a lot of "stuff".
God rewarded him with twice what he had before. God gave his all for us, it is us who need to apologize when we do wrong. God is almighty, all powerful and gave his only son for us - He need not apologize to me or anyone else for what he allows to happen. I need him and hate to think what life would be like without him - Job knew a good thing when he saw it and trusting God was that good thing.

Answer 6

Well, at least you did mention that God 'allowed him to suffer like that' instead of saying that He was the one responsible.

Satan challenged God's Universal Sovereignty.
I figure you have read Job Chapter 1 and 2 or you wouldn't have posted this question.

Satan's attack wasn't just against Job it was against God.

“Skin in behalf of skin, and everything that *a man* (not just Job) has he will give in behalf of his soul."

This attack was against God because Satan was insinuating that God's creation was flawed. That they would serve him when everything was *peachy* but when adversity came to town that they would break.

Job showed Satan's reasoning was and still is flawed.

Satan even recruited Jobs wife to try and get him to "curse God and die"!

James sums it up very well here:

"YOU have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome Jehovah gave, that Jehovah is very tender in affection and merciful." -James 5:11

Because Job's love for God and integrity he was rewarded:

"And Jehovah himself turned back the captive condition of Job when he prayed in behalf of his companions, and Jehovah began to give in addition all that had been Job’s, in double amount. 11 And there kept coming to him all his brothers and all his sisters and all those formerly knowing him, and they began to eat bread with him in his house and to sympathize with him and to comfort him over all the calamity that Jehovah had let come upon him; and they proceeded each one to give him a piece of money and each one a gold ring.

12 As for Jehovah, he blessed the end of Job afterward more than his beginning, so that he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand spans of cattle and a thousand she-asses. 13 He also came to have seven sons and three daughters." -Job 42:10-13

Answer 7

Theodicy: The Book of Job for the first time entertains the possibility to question the morality or justice of God's actions.

man judging and questioning 'God'...it's a good start!

it's just a story written in poem and likely not originated with Hebrews

Answer 8

God created everything and owns everything. We do not own anything, we are only able to use it for a short period of time while we are on this earth. No, God does not need to apologize.

Answer 9

God is not here to serve us. We are here to serve God. You are correct that Job had everything taken away from him, but because he continued to praise God, Job was given back everything he lost and more.

Answer 10

Job didn't think so. Understandably, in the beginning Job did not understand what was going on. But he grounded his heels in and stood upon what He knew about the Lord. Job learned an invaluable lesson: When nothing is left, he had the Lord and the Lord "is enough."