Job

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• Name	, Job
  Gender	Male
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  Death	DECEASED
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  Person ID	I39266	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	JACOB, Issachar ben   d. 1704 BC/1536 BC
  Mother	JOBAB, Aridah bat   d. DECEASED
  Family ID	F14255	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Deseret News, Thursday, November 25, 2010 By Being Faithful, Job Won Victory Over The Lion by Wayne Brickey Even the purest folks have at least one enemy. In fact, they may even draw his fire more than other people do. This enemy is the one whose very name means "the adversary," "the accuser," or "the personal enemy" - Satan. He is not merely an enemy, but the enemy. Mortal adversaries have mortal animosities - temporary, even momentary. After all, the issues of the moment, no matter how hot they are in passing, must someday give way. A day will come to focus on more gripping problems - eternal problems. And yet, in the heart of Satan, hate burns on and on. In premortality, when the loyal ones - championed their Father's plan, and when they wholly supported the chosen Redeemer, Lucifer's malice became white hot. His rage was vengeful. As his name denotes, it was also accusing. Satan's scheme was defeated by specific persons. The Accuser's dislike for those specific souls is not only perpetual, but personal. His rage finds a life of its own "in the hearts of the children of men." Contention perpetuates itself in cycles. If feeds on accusation, and then counter-accusation. To the saints of nearly 2,000 years ago - who faced lethal persecution and witnessed the death of a dispensation - Peter warned, "your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." Obsessed and merciless, the lion-like personal enemy roams and combs, walks and stalks the earth. We can tract his coordinates, for we hear the roaring. His anger is projected through the huffy and indignant, the easily offended, the reproaching and accusing voices of irritated human beings. At another time in history (just when it happened is not known for sure), Job had his encounters with that pitiless, brutal lion. The lion lost the battle against Job, but won against Job's accusing "friends." Satan had a theory that Job loved God only because of blessings. "Lower the protesting hedge around this man, take away all the help and coddling you pour out on him," Satan seemed to say, "and he will cease to seek you and be loyal. If you do not bless and spoil him so, he will hate you as much as I do." More exactly, Satan's challenge was, "Touch all that he hath" (yank away his loved ones and possessions, all his security), and later on, "touch his bone and his flesh" (bring gross suffering upon his body) . Than what? "He will curse thee to thy face." Of course, Job did lose everything. From honored and graceful leader "in all the east," he was reduced to a life of agony in the city dump. The evidence in Job's own words suggests to scholars that Job acquired the dread condition known as elephantiasis, which is accompanied not only by thickened and morbid skin and grossly disfigured limbs, but fever and horrific hallucinations and nightmares that can cause cardiac arrest. Yet, Satan's prediction was naive and off the mark. From start to finish, through what may have been months of indescribable suffering, "Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." The name "Job" translates as "The Hated One." Likely, this was not Job's name from birth. Perhaps, when fellow humans could muster no compassion for one whose appearance and smell were so abhorrent. And no doubt it was Satan, "The Enemy," who hated Job, "The Hated One," most of all. This target of accusation, sorrow and agony stayed true to his God. Job declared, despite his trembling flesh, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." (References: 1 Peter 5:6-10; Job 1:1-22; 2:3-10; 13:15)