How does job end

There are greater things than us that we do not and cannot understand. G-d then turns up , confirms this position and tells everyone that Job is a righteous man and that the three people who mocked him should make a sacrifice and that Job will forgive them. The story ends with Job receiving his wealth back several fold, having another 10 children and living for another years.

Job's wife appears briefly in the Book but she is an interesting character which we shall return to later in the series. Having lost her 10 children, she apparently gets angry with Job's piety and a domestic dispute ensues. Reconciliation must have followed at some point as she has another 10 children with him.

Her own feelings are never spoken of and she is never challenged in the same way as Job. Judaism and other religions have "developed" the story of Job. Indeed there is a second Job, of legend and tales. The Talmud mentions him as one of the three Prophets consulted by Pharaoh prior to his decision to drown the Hebrew baby boys Exodus.

Balaam tells him to kill the Jews, Yithro to spare them and Job who does not agree with the plan says nothing. The Talmud concludes that it was for this reason that Job was punished. Finished, for now. Continued thanks R. Sincerely appreciate you. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

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We read in verse 13 that Job received 10 more children: seven sons and three daughters, the exact number that he had had before. And there is no indication in the passage that Job was remarried, that this was a new or different wife. So, Job, having a family with his wife, obviously included reconciliation to her. Now God gives to Job and his wife the privilege and the joy of raising ten more godly children.

In receiving ten more children, Job has children who will inherit his land and possessions and who will continue his family name. This was very important in the Old Testament. Abraham lived right around the same time as Job and we remember the grief of Abraham and Sarah at being childless. What a blessing to Job. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. So God restored to Job his friendships, his fortunes, his family, and his future.

So, what is the promise here? What is the substance and content of the promise for us in the book of Job? We begin answering that question by saying that the promise is not a life of health and prosperity here on this earth. There are false teachers today, the advocates of what is called the health and wealth gospel, who construe and twist the book of Job this way so that all the book of Job means is this, that if you have enough faith, God will bless you with earthly health and prosperity.

This, they say, is how we are to understand the end of this book—that God, finally, blessed Job here because now Job had a strong enough faith. There are problems with that. The second is that this is outrageous and unrealistic. God does not promise to deliver us from these things during our earthly life. His promises are not earthly and material, but heavenly and spiritual and eternal.

We await an incomparable glory, which eye has not seen nor ear heard nor has ever entered into the heart of man to conceive. Then, the third problem with this thinking is that it fails to see the place that the book of Job has in the Bible. As probably the first written book in the Bible, Job belongs to the Old Testament, which is a time when God spoke symbolically, in pictures, in types, and in shadows concerning our salvation and eternal hope.

Some of that symbolism is very clear here at the end of the book of Job. The first indication we have already pointed to. It is this, that Job received double what he had before. Job did not receive the same as he had before or more than he had before, but he received exactly double what he had before. Now, do you not think that that gave Job reason to pause and to think, and is this not something for us to stop and think about, too?

And, in connection with that, there are two things that we have to point to that help us to understand what Isaiah is saying. Isaiah has in mind the New Testament church. In the surrounding verses he talks of the time when the Gentiles will be gathered into the church. And Isaiah speaks here not of temporal and earthly joys when he speaks of a double portion, but he speaks of everlasting joy that shall be unto them.

A second indication in Job 42 that this speaks of our heavenly blessing and future is that while God doubled to Job all his material possessions, He did not do this with his children. Job received exactly the same number of children that he had before—ten. Why is that? One last question, just to get you thinking: What do you think about Job being restored to his former glory?

Is the book saying that if you complain enough, God will come down and give you back what was taken from you? Would the moral have been more powerful if Job had been left in the ashes? Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. Previous Next. What's Up With the Ending?