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What About Job?

The story of Job is a perfect example of God multiplying someone after trouble hit. Much has been said about the Book of Job, and still many people don’t understand it. The theme of Job’s story is suffering, which most people don’t necessarily want to talk about. In fact, at a glance, Job can seem like a book about decrease instead of increase. But it is not!

There are lots of good things to say about Job. First, it must be noted that the Bible says, “[Job] was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil” (Job 1:1). He had seven sons and three daughters, and his estate was substantial. Job 1:3 says, “This man was the greatest of all the people of the East.”

Job had much, but one day everything collapsed. All that Job feared came upon him (Job 3:25) and everything he had was taken away from him. Marauding enemies stole his livestock and killed his servants, fire raged through his flocks and fields, all of his children died, he became deathly ill, and his wife turned on him.

Most of the Book of Job is about one man’s personal suffering. But the suffering didn’t last very long, and there was more to the story. Near the end of the book, Job 42:12 says, “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning.” The passage goes on to list all the belongings and family that were restored to him. Job’s story ends well too: “Job died old, and full of days” (Job 42:17).

God is a restorer. He multiplies. You may be feeling lack, or that you have lost some things. Obviously Job felt that way. But he didn’t quit on God. He didn’t have nearly as good a covenant as you have in the blood of Jesus, but he refused to turn his back on God. Despite everything bad that happened to him, he said, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).