Chapter 63-Job and his Friends
Joy's POV
The Next Day...(yes Seriously.. the next day xD)
"Ugh.. What time did i woke up?"i asked myself as i look around, it seems dark yet so i could guess this by.. 3:00 or 4:00 am.
I stood up and rub my eyes as I walk over to the window. The sun was about to rise so my guess are so... wrong.. but.. i think this is at 5:30...
I just watched the Sun rise instead of going back to sleep, come on! Dont tell me you dont want to watch the sun rise!
I look back and saw Gizmo wake up with a robotic sound at first.
"Hey Gizmo!"I wave my hands at him.
"Oh Joy, you're awake, you're so early..."Gizmo said as he tried to recover his energetic self
"Do you know what will happen next to Job?"I asked him
"well.. i only knew that... in the end, His faith in God never change... i dont know what happened at the second day.."Gizmo stated, as Samantha stood up and walk over to Us
"in all this Job did not sin nor blame God.
On another day when the sons of God came before Jehovah, Satan came with them. And Jehovah said to Satan, "From where do you come?".Satan answered, "From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." Jehovah said to Satan, "Have you seen my servant Job? For there is no man like him on the earth, blameless and upright, one who reveres God and avoids evil; he still is faithful, although you led me to ruin him without a use." Satan answered Jehovah, "Skin for skin, yes, a man will give all that he has for his life. But just put out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he certainly will curse you to your face." Jehovah said to Satan, "See, he is in your power; only spare his life."Samantha said.
"Oh is that a conversation at Heaven?"i asked Samantha, still with a bit of glaring at her
"Yes, but you know what he means by But just put out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh?"Samantha asked
"Nope.."
"Look...Satan left the presence of Jehovah, and afflicted Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head with leprosy so terrible that Job took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself..."
until we heard some noises coming from Job's room.
"Ahh!! DONT KILL ME!!!"Chris woke up suddenly..."oh.. its just a dream.."
"Chris lets go see Job!"Gizmo pulled Chris with him and as we open the door to Job's room.. he was...
"And as the bible said...leprosy..."Samantha whispered.
"You read the story Of Job huh?"Chris said to Samantha
"I do, Me and my little brother do."
Just then, superbook appeared and bring us forward in time
"Look, its Job..."I pointed over to him
"Yay! My wounds a—"
"Shhh!"Gizmo said to Chris
"Are you still holding to your piety? Curse God and die!"His wife said to him.
"You speak like a senseless woman. We accept prosperity from God, shall we not also accept misfortune?"Job replied
"Wow... i guess everything seems..."
Then superbook arrived again, taking us forward in time.
"Hmm.. it looks like we were sent, 7 days after we heard the conversation of Job and his wife.."Gizmo explained.
"... and it looks like they're talking.. or fighting.."I said as i peered in to see Job and three more men.
"Those are Job's friend, one is Eliphaz the Temanite, and that one is Bildad the Shuhite, and the last one is Zophar the Naamathite"Gizmo and Samantha said.
"Wow, you two are gonna be perfect for a bible Quiz bee."I chuckled.
" "Why did I not die at birth,
Breathe my last when I was born?
I should then have lain down in quiet,
Should have slept and been at rest
With kings and counsellors of earth,
Who built themselves great pyramids;
With princes rich in gold,
Who filled their houses with silver.
"There the wicked cease from troubling,
There the weary are at rest;
Captives too at ease together,
Hearing not the voice of masters.
There the small and great are gathered,
There the slave is free at last."Its a bible passage... yet its a conversation... wait? Whats the difference?
Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered:
"If one dares to speak, will it vex you?But who can keep from speaking?See! you have instructed many,
And strengthened the drooping hands.Your words have upheld the fallen,Giving strength to tottering knees.But now that trouble comes, you are impatient,Now that it touches you, you lose courage."
"Is not your religion your confidence;Your blameless life, your hope?Remember! What innocent man ever perished Or where were the upright ever destroyed?Happy the man whom God corrects;Therefore, spurn not the Almighty's chastening.For he causes pain but to comfort,And wounds, that his hands may heal."he continued
"Gizmo... record this.."Chris elbows Gizmo
"Delete some storage data"Gizmo grinned
"But your data is like 780 Gigabytes!.. or even more than that!"Chris said
"Fine.."
Then Job answered:
"What strength have I, that I should endure? And what is my future, that I should be patient?Is my strength the strength of stones,or is my body made of brass? A friend should be kind to one fainting, though he lose his faith in the Almighty. Teach me, and I will keep silent. Show me how I have sinned."
Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered:
"Is God a God of injustice?
Or can the Almighty do wrong?
If your children sinned against him,He has let them suffer the penalty;But you should earnestly seek him,And devoutly beseech the Almighty.if you are pure and upright,He will surely answer your prayer,And will prosper your righteous abode."
Then Job answered:
"To be sure, I know that it is so;
But how can a man be just before God? He is wise in mind and mighty in strength, Who has ever defied him and prospered, Blameless I am! I regard not myself; I hate my life; it is all one to me. Therefore, I openly declare: He destroys the blameless as well as the wicked."
Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered:
"If you would cleanse your heart,
And stretch out your hands to God, And put away sin from your hand, And let no wrong dwell in your tent, You would then lift your face without spot,
You would then be steadfast and fearless."
Then Job answered:
"Verily you are the people,
And with you wisdom shall die!
But I have a mind as well as you,
And who does not know all this?
Oh, that my words were now written, That they were inscribed in a book, That with an iron pen and with lead In rock they were carved forever!"
"For I know that my Defender lives, That at last he shall stand upon earth; And after this skin is destroyed. Freed from my flesh, I shall see him, Whom I shall behold for myself; My own eyes shall see, and no stranger's." Job continued...
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