Bible Summary Job Chapter 1- 3

Job Chapter 1: The Book of Job begins by introducing its central character The first look at Job shows him to be an exceedingly righteous man. Job was a man of impressive wealth and status. By any measure, Job was a prominent and affluent man. It was God who brought up Job as a subject for discussion, and God brought up Job in the sense of bragging about Job’s godliness and character. God was so impressed with Job, that Job was not sinlessly perfect; yet God called him blameless. “It means that no matter how horrible his offenses may have been, all the charges against him have been dropped.

Satan believed that adversity could make Job move from his standing in faith and that Job would be unable to stand against the wiles and the deceptions of the devil, In response to Satan’s accusation, God gave him permission to attack Job.

Job mourned his tremendous losses. He had lost his sons and daughters and servants and a great amount of material wealth. It was a time for mourning. In the midst of his mourning, Job also decided to worship God despite his circumstances and feelings. We might say that this was indeed pure worship and greatly glorifying to God. In this Satan was utterly disappointed; he found a man who loved his God more than his earthly portion… He had been so often successful in this kind of temptation, that he made no doubt that he should succeed again.”

Job Chapter 2: Surely as Job still retained his integrity, so did Satan his vanity This shows that both God and Satan understood that the attack could only come to Job because God allowed it. Although God did not actively send the Sabeans, the Chaldeans, the fire, or the wind; they could only come by His permission. Satan here asserted that Job failed to curse God only because he was afraid that if he did, it would bring personal punishment from God. Satan argued that the problem with the prior attacks was that none of the previous attacks touched Job directly, but only things next to or outside of Job. Satan insisted that if the attack were made against Job directly – if some calamity came upon Job’s body – then Job would certainly curse God. Job's wife came and told him to curse God and die but Job rebuke her because he had faith in God

Job Chapter 3: This chapter begins the battle in Job’s mind and soul. He will not lose more or suffer more than he already has. Satan was confident that he could push Job to curse God (Job 1:11 and 2:5). As Job spoke in his deep distress, he cursed the day of his birth – but he did not even come close to cursing God. Job cursed the day of his birth. Yet if that were not enough, he goes even further back and curses the night of his conception. Job’s complaint is that it would be better if he were never born than to endure his present catastrophe of affliction. Job continued his complaint from his place of misery. Job was among those who long for death, but it does not come. Yet he did not commit or seem to seriously consider suicide. Again, this was the outpouring of an honest, agonizing soul.