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The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.
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Ministerio cristianoText and Commentary on Job
Job 1
In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2He had seven sons and three daughters, 3and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
4His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, âPerhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.â This was Jobâs regular custom.
6One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. 7The LORD said to Satan, âWhere have you come from?â
Satan answered the LORD, âFrom roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.â
8Then the LORD said to Satan, âHave you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.â
9âDoes Job fear God for nothing?â Satan replied. 10âHave you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.â
12The LORD said to Satan, âVery well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.â
Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
13One day when Jobâs sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brotherâs house, 14a messenger came to Job and said, âThe oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!â
16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, âThe fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!â
17While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, âThe Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!â
18While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, âYour sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brotherâs house, 19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!â
20At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21and said:
âNaked I came from my motherâs womb,
and naked I will depart.
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;
may the name of the LORD be praised.â
22In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.
Original Meaning
Jobâs Profile (1:1â5)
UZ. JOBâS HOMELAND HAS yet to be positively identified. Weiss points out that Uz is a region, not a city, and that âthe Eastâ is associated with the Syrian Desert stretching from Mesopotamia to Arabia.1 In biblical genealogies, Uz is sometimes connected with Aram (Gen. 10:23; 22:21; 1 Chron. 1:17)2 and at other times with Edom (Gen. 36:21, 28; 1 Chron. 1:42; Lam. 4:21; probably Jer. 25:20). Edom has been preferred over Aram, based on Edomâs reputation for wisdom and Eliphaz the Temaniteâs origin from the area of Edom. In an appendix to the book of Job, the LXX locates Edom between Idumea and Arabia; thus, the earliest analysis situates it in the south.3
Regardless of its location, this detail is significant because it indicates that Job is not an Israelite. His non-Israelite status explains the absence of many key theological elements in the book, including law, covenant, temple, and references to Yahweh.4 Intriguingly, however, the book frequently evidences an Israelite perspective,5 which suggests that the story of the non-Israelite Job has actually been given its literary shape by an Israelite author for an Israelite audience. This secondary context gives the book a voice in the context of Israelite ideas about God and his expectations.6
Jobâs qualities. Weiss suggests that âblamelessâ (tam) refers to Jobâs character and âuprightâ (yaĆĄar) to his actions.7 When we look at the use of the terminology elsewhere in the book of Job, we find that the opposites of tam are âproclaimed guiltyâ (ÊżqĆĄ, 9:20) and âwickedâ (raĆĄaÊż, 9:22). This verbal stem of ÊżqĆĄ occurs only four other times (Prov. 10:9; 28:18, both in contrast to tam; Isa. 59:8; Mic. 3:9, both in contrast to âjustice,â miĆĄpaáč) and specifically refers to something twisted or perverse. The noun raĆĄaÊż is, in contrast, common (26x in Job), and refers generally to the wicked. The word tam denotes integrity and the resulting absence of blame or guilt. Tam is an appropriate description for people characterized by integrity when measured by general human standards. Note, for example, Abimelech, who asserts that he took Sarah in integrity of heart (NIV: âwith a clear conscienceâ Gen. 20:5), and that God confirmed this assessment (20:6).
Second, Job is identified as âuprightâ (yaĆĄar), a term commonly used to describe people who behave according to Godâs expectationsâspecifically, kings faithful to Yahweh (e.g., Joash, 2 Chron. 24:2). An upright person gains Godâs favor (Deut. 6:18). God himself is upright (Deut. 32:4), and he made humankind upright (Eccl. 7:29), but people have gone in search of schemes. The Israelites each did what was (up)right in their own eyes (Judg. 17:6; 21:25) because they had no king and they were departing from faithfulness to God.
Tam and yaĆĄar are desirable accolades, but they are achievable for humans who seek steadfastly to order their ways according to customary conceptions of godliness. But these terms do not describe people who live lives of sinless perfection; rather, they describe those who have found favor in the eyes of God and other humans (cf. Prov. 3:4).
Job is also described as one who âfears Godâ (ÊŸelohim). As we would expect in Job, the author does not identify him as one who âfears Yahwehâ specifically. We can again turn to the description of the non-Israelite Abimelech and his people and the premature assessment made of them by Abraham (Gen 20:11).8 In common Old Testament usage, to fear the Lord/God is to take God seriously. That can mean different things depending on what one knows of God. For the sailors in Jonah, fearing the Lord entailed a different response than the Israelites, who âfeared the LORDâ in response to the covenant. In a non-Israelite context, fearing God could refer to being ritually or ethically conscientious, and the context of Job requires nothing more than this definition. In sum, Job is a paragon of devotion and integrity.
Jobâs possessions and status. In verses 2 and 3 Jobâs prosperity is described in terms of his family and his possessions. The numbers all give indication of representing idealizations or stereotypes, but this is no evidence that they are contrived. Truth is stranger than fiction. Nevertheless, as suggested in the introduction, the book as wisdom literature would be expected to be the result of literary shaping. Everything about Job is ideal, which has the purpose of portraying him as the ultimate example of a person who is beyond reproach and who has achieved success by the highest standards.
Jobâs piety. A number of questions emerge from the short vignette in verses 4â6. One might first question why these feasts are the setting for the potential offense of cursing God. Note that these are not cultic feasts because the word used here usually denotes special celebratory occasions; other terminology designates a cultic feast. From a literary standpoint these feasts have significance because they provide the setting in which Jobâs sons and daughters eventually meet their demise (1:18â19).
This group setting might seem unnecessary at first glance since Job expresses his concern that they may have cursed God âin their hearts.â Although this phrase often refers to the private thoughts of an individual, when a group of people are part of the scene, it can refer to corporate thinking shared confidentially (cf. Deut. 8:17; 18:21; Ps. 78:18). Tangentially, since just such a feast was taking place when Jobâs family was destroyed, one might ask whether their behavior at the feast may have somehow brought this judgment on them (note that Bildad suggests exactly that in 8:4). In such a case, the death of his family could be interpreted by observers not as action against Job, but as action against his children. But the information here about Jobâs scrupulous purifying rituals argue against that suggestion.
Second, why does Job even imagine that his family might curse God in their private conversations at these feasts? Again, a first glance can be misleading. It would appear that this is an extreme offense that would be unlikely of this pious family, where we might expect an illustration that shows more subtlety. But that initial impression evaporates under scrutiny.
Strange as it may seem, the word translated âcursedâ is the normal Hebrew word for âblessâ (barak). The general consensus among interpreters is that the use of the opposite word is euphemistic so that the uncomfortable concept of cursing God is circumnavigated.9 This unusual interplay between cursing and blessing becomes significant in the early sections of this book. In 1:11 (also 2:5) the Challenger suggests that Job will âblessâ...