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Job (the prophet)

When things are at the worst, I often read the book of Job

A man who was more righteous and more rich than I ever was lost everything, his children killed and his servants killed and his livestock killed and stolen, sore boils from the crown of his head to the side of his foot, but he retained his integrity, and even though he grumbled against God under the weight of his three friends' foolish accusations, God forgave him for that and restored him when he prayed for his friends and God told him to, and the latter end of Job was greater than the beginning, having double what he had before, giving an inheritance to his daughters also with his sons, and died, being old and satisfied with years
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OriginalDumbMan · 36-40
Nothing belongs to you in this mortal world
Too bad for his original children, and slaves, they stayed dead. Also those are the only people that Satan is credited to have killed in the entire bible. God approved too.
th3r0n · 41-45, M
@BlueSkyKing technically all accurate, though from what we read it sounds like they spent their days feasting in mirth

God killed lots and LOTS of people in the Bible, and also allowed Satan to kill them, though God never did any wrong, and that tells us a lot about the people he did kill, they were consistently evil
@th3r0n 42 chapters of misery.

God and Satan play a game with the lives of Job and his family. Satan bets that Job will curse God to his face if Job's life is made unpleasant enough. So God (or Satan, it's hard to tell them apart) kills Job's children and sends various torments upon him. Although Job curses the day he was born and says some nasty (and true) things about God, he doesn't curse God (as he should have), so he is rewarded with a new, even better, children. Another happy ending!

What are the prophecies in the book?
th3r0n · 41-45, M
@BlueSkyKing it's not hard to tell them apart at all

There's the accuser that can't do anything if the king doesn't let him, and there's the all-powerful King that not even the accuser will challenge

And it's not a game, it's the cycle that our lives consist of
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th3r0n · 41-45, M
@jshm2 not wrong

 
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