Job : Cruelty & Violence (13)
- To start off God and Satan's gruesome game, Job's slaves and animals are burned to death or killed with swords. Then Job's
children are killed in a windstorm while partying.
1:13
- God (or Satan -- it's hard to tell them apart) sends a wind that kills Job's sons and daughters.
1:18
- God and Satan play a little game with Job. God allows Satan to torment Job, just to see how he will react.
2:3
- "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
- Because of God's cruel wager with Satan, Job curses the day he was born.
3:1
- "The arrows of the Almighty are within me ... the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me."
6:4
- "Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions"
7:14
- God multiplies wounds without cause, destroys the perfect along with the wicked, laughs at the trial of the innocent,
and hides the truth from judges. ,
9:22
- Speaking of God, Job says: "He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his
teeth."
16:9
- "God hath ... taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces."
16:11
- "He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground."
16:13
- "Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion?"
God seems pleased to have created prey for lions and ravens to eat.
38:39
- "The eagle ... seeketh the prey.... Her young ones suck up blood."
God is pleased with the way that predators kill and devour their prey.
39:27
