Job's innocence is questioned after Satan convinces God to allow him to test Job's faith. Satan takes his family, health, and possessions away from him. His friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, who have come to Job's house to console him, all doubt his ... perish by the wrath of God. In his statement, Eliphaz subtly questions the innocence of Job himself. By saying the innocent are not punished, he suggests Job isn't free of sin as he is one suffering by the punishment of God. Eliphaz tells Job to seek God and repent his actions before him. He defends God's actions, while questioning Job's ...

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... more than we love each other, in the case; God wants what is good for us and to make us happy. One may ask, does God test us with suffering? God did not necessarily test Job but allowed Satan to take everything away from him and making him very ill, to see what is Job's heart is made of. God allows evil ... suffering and receive many more blessings. Even though Job lost everything and was ill he did not turn his heart away from God, 'In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong' (Job 1:22). Suffering is a blessing, God does not just give one a light after darkness as he did...

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