Quotes about Job

Oswald Chambers once said that the Psalms teach you how to pray; Job teaches you how to suffer; the Song of Solomon teaches you how to love; Proverbs teaches you how to live; and Ecclesiastes teaches you how to enjoy.

In a sense, Job must replay the original test of the garden of Eden, with the bar raised higher. Living in paradise, Adam and Eve faced a best-case scenario for trusting God, who asked so little of them and showered down blessings. In a living hell, Job faces the worst-case scenario: God asks so much, while curses rain down on him.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken." C.

I worked as an engineer before going into ceramics, making insulators. It was my job, so I got it done. But I also had a lot of pride in myself.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

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.

When we buy a product, we essentially "hire" something to get a job done. If it does the job well, when we are confronted with the same job, we hire that same product again. And if the product does a crummy job, we "fire" it and look around for something else we might hire to solve the problem.