Quotes about Job

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Your cross is your attitude about your dead-end job and your in-laws. It is your attitude about your aches and pains. Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness--these are the things God calls me to die to daily.

Whena person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.