Job – General
In the book of Job we find some elevated sentiments, some sublime and foolish thoughts, something of the wonder and the joys and sorrows of life; but the story is infamous.
Job 1:1, 8, 22; 2:3 - According to these verses Job was perfect, upright, and sinless. Yet many other verses in the Bible say that such a person has never existed.
Job 1:6, 2:1 - Here we are told that "the sons of God came to present themselves to the Lord." Why then does the New Testament claim that Jesus was God's only son?
Job 1:7, 2:2 - God asks where Satan has been lately (apparently God didn't know), and Satan answered saying, "From walking to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down on it." I thought he was kicked out of heaven?
Job 1:12 - God gives Satan power over all that Job possesses.
Job 1:19 - God (or Satan) sends a wind that kills Job's sons and daughters.
Job 2:3-7 - God and Satan play a little game with Job. God allows Satan to torment Job, just to see how he will react. So he does not know everything?
Job 2:9-10 - Job's wife rightly says that if Job is to keep his integrity, then he should curse God (for playing vicious games with Satan) and die. Job replies that she is talking like a "foolish woman."
Job 6:6 Job - Asks life’s most important question: "Is there any taste in the white of an egg?"
Job 7:7-9 - These verses say that death is final and that there is no afterlife. But this contradicts many other Bible verses.
Job 9:6 - The earth rests upon pillars and doesn't move.
Job 9:17, 22-24 - Job complains that God "multiplies his [Job's] wounds without cause, ... destroys the perfect and the wicked, ... will laugh at the trial of the innocent, ... and covereth the faces of the judges." No attempt is made to deny the truth of these accusations.
Job 10:3 - Job asks God an excellent question: "Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands?" God doesn't answer.
Job 11:7 - "Canst thou by searching find out God?" It seems that for once the Bible agrees with reason and answers no to this question. But Paul disagrees in Rom.1:20
Job 12:6 - Job says that God rewards evildoers with wealth and happiness. But the Psalms 34:21 say that they will be desolate.
Job 14:4 - Speaking of births, Job says: "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean. Not one." So according to the Bible, women are dirty (sinful), giving birth is dirty (sinful), and the newborn baby is dirty (sinful).
Job 26:11 - Heaven is set upon pillars that tremble when God gets mad.
Job 30:29 - Job is the brother of dragons.
Job 38:4-6 - The earth is set on foundations and it does not move.
Job 38:7 - "All the sons of God ..." But according to Jn.3:18 and 1 Jn.4:19 there is only one son of God, Jesus.
Job 39:13-16 - As the note in the Harper Collins Study Bible says, "This folk tradition about ostriches does not accord with facts about their nature." Ostriches are not cruel and stupid birds who abandon their eggs to die after laying them, as these verses imply. They are, in fact, careful and attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which are incubated by the females during the day and by the darker colored male at night, an arrangement that helps to conceal them from foes. After the eggs are hatched, they are cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running adults.
Job 39:17 - As noted above, the bible is wrong about ostriches being cruel and inattentive parents. But if they were, whose fault would it be? Why would God deprive them of the wisdom and understanding needed to do the job right?
Job 42:5 - Job sees God. Yet in many places the Bible says that no one has every seen God.
Job 42:13-15 - After God (or Satan) kills Job's first set of kids (1:19), he is given an even better set.
