Book Of Job Character Analysis

While the bible contains many morals and stories about the problem of evil, few stories unpack the problem of evil than The Book of Job. In Job, G-D allows the devil to place hardships on one of G-D’s most loyal followers: Job. In return, Job questions why his life has suddenly been turned from prosperous to pitiful. Although the book as a whole discusses the problem of evil, Chapters 3-5 of Job examine the relationship between G-D and the Problem of Evil like few other sections of the bible.

Chapters 3-5 show that suffering could happen to anyone and the problem of evil is a universal problem with no solution. The primary techniques that the author uses to examine these themes is the repetition of sentence structure, the personification of

In chapter 4 of Job, Elihaz tries to comfort Job after hearing him talk in his unsettleting manner. Eliphaz says to Job, “ Think now, what innocent man ever perished? Where have the upright been destroyed? As I have seen, those who plow evil and sow mischief reap them” ( Job 4:6-7). From this quote, we learn that Eliphaz is trying to comfort Job by reassuring him that nothing happens to honorable men. Eliphaz tells Job that those who plant evil ultimately meet their fate because of G-D. From this statement we know that in the time which the bible was written people believed that G-D was both omnipotent and omniscient, two premises that have been discussed on a scholarly level. There is some ambiguity to Eliphaz’s statement as today there are many people who are evil that end up getting away with their crimes. Another major takeaway from this quote is the biblical sense of friendship. Eliphaz is trying to soothe Job’s anxiety by making a bold claim. While his claim is questionable in the realm of reality, his effort to calm down Job is commemorable.The nature of the biblical friendship seems to be a strong sense of loyalty to one another, which is a trend that still holds true to valuable relationships today. Even from our modern lens, there is certainly admiration for the values that uphold biblical friendships. Eliphaz’s example of friendship conveys the idea that a loyal

Job’s usage of the Jussive case not only exhibits his extreme state of sadness but also shows the lack of options that he has to end his suffering. Later in Chapter 3, Job continues his speech on the theme of despair and uses vivid imagery to provoke an alternative style of thinking to death. Lastly, Eliphaz’s response to Job provides the reader with a sense of what biblical friendship was like and also about how someone’s close friends and family could help levitate the pain of