The book of Job is a moral tale in the bible proving Job's faith in God. It is really different from other bible moral stories because Job is punished for no reason at all. God allows the accuser(the devil) to do all these horrible things to Job to test his faith. After Job went through all these terrible things, he does not question God because he knows he is always right. The accuser challenges God again and God lets him test Job once again. Job then has to go through similar horrific things and have his children and wife killed.
Job morns for a week with his friends. His friends begin to question what is happening to Job. Saying these types of things only happen to people that have done bad things. Job says he did not do anything wrong and tries to convince his friends. His friends deep down know that he did not do anything wrong, but are too scared to say anything because they do not want to go against God and be punished. Job then puts God on trial asking what he did wrong ad why he is being punished.Doing this proves is faith to God because he is being honest and truthful about God. His friends however were being unfaithful and were not punished because Job said a prayer for them and they had to offer him gifts and they were not punished.At the end Job was rewarded by getting double of everything he owned, a family and offerings from his friends.
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