The Lord said “Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”
And we find out that ” And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:”
And “Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. “
Now it is clear that God feels very strongly about Job being a good honest man, yet Job’s wife and children are not the same.
You see, a good person should not be judged by their family. Job is an excellent example of this. Also his wife may have been the reason that the children turned out the way that they did. Job should not be judged by others because his wife tainted the minds of Jobs children, and then as adults they misbehaved.
People of that time would have looked at all the misery that Job was going through and then assumed that it was because Job was a bad man. They would have said, “Look at his wife and children and their attitude and how they behave!” and poor suffering Job would have had no argument because people didn’t care what Job said, what they cared about was what they saw and what they assumed was the reason for what they saw.
God clearly thinks that job is a good man, and that is because of God seeing job’s inner-core, his heart and soul. Imagine God offering Job to a new wife and her looking at Job’s ruined life, his old wife, his children, imagine the picture it made, not so good huh!
It is hard to really tell what happened to Jobs wife. Job does not pray for her. But it would seem obvious that she was not the mother of his future family. Job was heavily blessed by God and lived a long full life.
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Job Chapter 42, verse 12-17:
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
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In the Biblical narrative, the role played by Job’s wife is limited to a short and penetrating conversation with her husband. The apocryphal Divrei Iyov, however, devotes a great deal of attention to this character. According to the latter work, Job had two wives, the first of whom was named Uzit (in Greek transliteration: Sitidos), after the land of Uz where Job and his wife lived, and who, according to the appendix to the Septuagint, was an Arab woman. Job’s second wife, Dinah daughter of Jacob, bore him his sons and daughters when the Lord blessed him, at the end of the book of Job.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
January 30, 2018.
January 30, 2018.