Job
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Violence and Cruelty in Job

1. To start off God and Satan's gruesome game, Job's slaves and animals are killed. 1:14-17

2. God (or Satan -- it's hard to tell them apart) sends a wind that kills Job's sons and daughters. 1:18-19

3. "So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown." 2:7

4. Because of God's cruel wager with Satan, Job curses the day he was born. 3:1-3, 11

5. God terrorizes people with arrows and poison. 6:4

6. God terrifies people by sending them nightmares while they sleep. 7:14

7. Speaking of God, Job says: "He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth." 16:9