How did Job's children die in the Bible?

Answer 1

The Book of Job introduces Satan, not yet as the adversary of God portrayed in later Christian belief, but as a loyal assistant of God, whose role was to prove the righteousness of people by tempting them to do wrong. God twice gave Satan a challenge to have Job curse God, first by destroying his family and his property, then by afflicting him with a terrible disease. If Job cursed God, he would be judged as evil, yet in this story it seems that God and his loyal assistant, Satan, were the evil ones.

After Job passed the test, God arrogantly demanded of him whether he thought he was as great as God himself, although to be fair, this part of the narrative was probably extracted from a more ancient text. No-one could really have known of the conversations between God and Satan, or of the wickedness they agreed to perpetrate, so we can dismiss the book as no more than a fable.

Answer 2

Job's children died when a strong wind collapsed the house they were in, killing all of them at once. This event was part of the series of tests that Job endured as described in the Book of Job in The Bible.

Answer 3

Job is a book that refutes retribution theology. We don't get punished on an individual basis for what we do. All humanity gets punished for what all humanity does.

Another, less- answer: Death is final.

Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more

Job14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

Job 20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Another answer:

Be grateful to the Lord for what you have.

Another Answer

JOB - Lesser teachings conclude the Book of Job says that we will never understand God. Therefore, lesser teachers say, the sum is Job 13:15, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him…" And they leave off the telltale idiocy of "…but I will maintain mine own ways before him." And so the errant church maintains its own ways before God! After more scourging of pride (which is leviathan, not some dinosaur,) Job finally gets it and sees with spiritual eyes how wrong he was to be rigidly righteous, in effect, enthroning self to be God because of pride in knowledge in God. The scourging finally worked to demolish pride of position and God-knowledge which finally made Job close to the true God. Job said, "Now mine (spiritual) eye seeth thee." And he repented. So far, we have not seen the popular church or so-called body of Christ do this yet. Therefore we see that with amazing strategy, God tricked Satan into pushing Job out of his comfortable yet disconnected-from-God righteousness and into the excruciating pride-removing overcoming into holy fellowship and friendship with God! By the way, preachers stuck in righteousness cannot see this or teach this because they are not yet in holiness and cannot and do not believe in it…yet! So they are stuck in the loop of Job 13:15a. See?

Answer 4

Simple: Job died like anybody else, but he knew he would live again:-

Job 19:25-26

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

It is incredible to realize that this book of Job is the oldest book of the Bible, yet he knew his Redeemer Jesus Christ would save him: it makes you wonder how much of the Gospel was known in the Old Testament - I suspect all except the details.

Answer 5

A:The Book of Job is generally considered to have been written after the Babylonian Exile, probably in the Persian period, although it clearly contains some very old material. The chief reasons usually given for a post-exilic date are the speculative nature of the book's theology, the acquaintance of the author with other Old Testament writings such as Isaiah 40-55, and the presence of Satan as a member of God's heavenly court - since the only other references to Satan are certainly post-exilic. Thus, the audience of Job, at least in its present form, would have lived late in the first millennium BCE.

The book could not have been written without a wide knowledge of the literary world of the ancient Near East outside Palestine. This fact, together with the unexplained peculiarities of the language of the poetical part of the book, has led some scholars to suppose that the author was either a Jew living outside Palestine or even a non-Jew.

In the Book of Job, Satan is the loyal assistant of God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful - not at all the adversary of God in later Christian tradition. The story begins when the sons of God come to present themselves before the Lord, with Satan one among them. God asks Satan where he has been and then asks whether Satan has tried to tempt Job, the most upright man on earth. Satan says no man is beyond temptation, so God challenges him todo so, allowing him to harm Satan's property, family and servants but leave Satan unharmed. The story tells of all Job's losses but his continued refusal to blame God, who had actually brought about his calamities. When Satan returns unsuccessful, God gives him another dare, allowing him to harm Job, as long as he does not kill him. Still Job refuses to blame God. Finally, God in anger that Job dare be so righteous, demands whether Job thinks he is as great as God himself. He asks where Job was when God created the world and killed the chaos monsters. Job shows himself to be modest and obedient, so God relents and grants providence that Job have a new wife for the one he lost, seven new sons and three daughters, and greater ewealth than before, living to a hundred and forty years.

Answer 6

AnswerThe Book of Job introduces Satan, not yet as the adversary of God portrayed in later Christian belief, but as a loyal assistant of God, whose role was to prove the righteousness of people by tempting them to do wrong. God twice gave Satan a challenge to have Job curse God, first by destroying his family and his property, then by afflicting him with a terrible disease. If Job cursed God, he would be judged as evil, yet in this story it seems that God and his loyal assistant, Satan, were the evil ones.

After Job passed the test, God arrogantly demanded of him whether he thought he was as great as God himself, although to be fair, this part of the narrative was probably extracted from a more ancient text. No-one could really have known of the conversations between God and Satan, or of the wickedness they agreed to perpetrate, so we can dismiss the book as no more than a fable.

AnswerHere is the answer from a Bible Study from Good News Magazine:

The suffering of a man named Job explains much about why character is more important in God's eyes than the discomfort and pain we experience in this life. Job was an exceptionally righteous man. He carefully avoided acts of transgression against God's laws. He behaved blamelessly. But, like all of us, he had weaknesses (Mark 14:38). He was not perfect.

God decided to test Job's character to see how his commitment to Him would bear up under adversity. The account of Job is in Scripture to help righteous people, when they go through discouraging and traumatic experiences, to learn to trust God patiently while awaiting the resolution of their problems.

God boasted of Job's righteous behavior to Satan. (Job 1:8). Satan responded, ". . . Stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and [Job] will surely curse You to Your face!" (Job 1:9-11). Later events proved Satan wrong. Job's character was not that weak.

God granted Satan permission to strip Job of his possessions and his family and to afflict him with excruciating boils (Job 1:12-19). Job at first accepted his plight, saying, "The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD" (Job 1:21).

Later "Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, [and] each one came . . . [to] mourn with him, and to comfort him" (Job 2:11). After a week of lamenting with him, they began to discuss his calamities and suffering. Job listed his complaints, showing the inequities of life. Later God agreed with him. Not everything in this life is fair and equitable.

Job's three friends, however, were certain that God was punishing Job for some secret sin, something Job could hide from everyone but God. Job vehemently denied that such was the case, and he was right. God later verified this also.

However, during his ordeal of loss and suffering, Job gradually came to resent God. This often happens to people in the midst of inexplicable calamity.

Many chapters relate the faulty reasoning and accusations of Job's three friends and Job's denials. Finally, one of Job's younger friends, Elihu, spoke up. He recognized that Job's perspective was flawed and distorted. Job had convinced himself that his afflictions served no purpose. He decided that God was simply not treating him fairly.

Elihu realized that Job was so obsessed with his innocence (Job 33:8-9) that he was finding fault with God rather than looking for lessons to learn from his trials. To Job's complaints Elihu replied: "Do you think this is right? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'?" (Job 35:2).

Instead of seeing his adversity as opportunity for patience and for letting God mold him, Job had grown in his resentment toward his Creator. He closed his mind to the possibility that he could learn something valuable from his suffering.

Job's principal objection was that God was unresponsive to him, that He was not properly acknowledging his righteousness.

God challenged Job, suggesting that he try to tame a sea creature, a great beast that was "made without fear" (Job 41:33-34): "Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower? Can you put a reed through his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?" (Job 41:1-3, 4-10).

In the end Job saw that the basis of his problem was his lack of understanding and excessive confidence in his own righteousness. Then his view of God's fairness changed. He saw that His critical attitude toward God was wrong: "I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know . . . I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:3-6).

Job's experience is recorded in great detail so we can learn the folly of holding too high an opinion of ourselves. "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud" (Proverbs 16:18-19).

Job's experiences can explain why righteous people may go through discouraging and traumatic times and be tempted to resent God for not obviously and quickly intervening on their behalf. Like Job, we can fail to understand that God sees far more than we see.

No matter how severe a trial is, we should never assume God isn't listening or doesn't care. He sees lessons we need to learn that are beyond our present understanding. We need always to remember some excellent advice from King David: "Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the LORD!" (Psalm 27:14). We should learn from Job's experience to maintain patient respect and trust in God even in the midst of our sufferings (James 5:10-11).

Answer 7

A:

In Job 1:12, as a challenge, God told Satan to do whatever evil he wished to the family of Job, only as long as he did not physically harm Job himself. Then, after a series of misfortunes, Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking together when a great wind came and destroyed their house, killing the children of Job (Job 1:18-19).

Answer 8

"Job" is one of the books of the Bible where the author(s) have expressed their experieces with "Divine Intervention", although it is in parables, and can only be interpreted by someone who has had one. This revelations might be new to many, but that is the truth with not only this book in question but all the scriptures.

Answer:

Job is a book which (like Psalms 73) deals with the question of the suffering of the righteous.

Answer 9

Iyov (Job) was a very righteous man, apparently a descendant of Terah, whom God tested through pain and loss (Job ch.1). His travails lasted for one year (Mishna, Eiduyot ch.2). During his sufferings, he spoke with his three friends concerning God's judgment and wisdom. He, more than his friends, spoke with full trust in God; and at the end of the year, God comforted him and once again gave him health and prosperity (Job ch.42). The Book of Job is in the form of a four-way debate, in which God himself then steps in as the final arbiter.

Answer 10

Iyov (Job) was a very righteous man, apparently a descendant of Terah, whom God tested through pain and loss (Job ch.1). His travails lasted for one year (Mishna, Eiduyot ch.2). During his sufferings, he spoke with his three friends concerning God's judgment and wisdom. He, more than his friends, spoke with full trust in God; and at the end of the year, God comforted him and once again gave him health and prosperity (Job ch.42). The Book of Job is in the form of a four-way debate, in which God himself then steps in as the final arbiter.

Why did Job suffer?

As in other cases, God wanted to provide us with a role-model. "Hillel makes the poor people accountable," since he learned Torah despite grinding poverty (Talmud, Yoma 35b). So too, Job served God despite exceptionally hard suffering, thereby teaching us that those of us who suffer* can do so too.

The Book of Job is the only book in the Hebrew Bible concerning which the Talmud debates as to when it took place. One sage states that this book, like the Song of Songs*, is allegorical (Talmud, Bava Bathra 15a), written for the purpose of teaching us, and need not refer to a specific person. The majority opinion is that such a man did actually live.

*See also the Related Links.

Link: More about suffering

Link: Song of Songs allegory

Link: More about the Hebrew Bible