Handbook for Bible Students

Job

Key-word, “Trial;” Key-verse, 1:9.-This book solves a problem. Satan asks: “Doth Job serve God for naught?” This Oriental tale is the answer: Uprightness may survive the loss of all temporal good. Disaster to property and family, and disease in his own person, together, could not bring Job to curse God whom he feared, nor to do the evil which he hated. Subordinately, another problem is here discussed,-the uses of adversity. [p. 41] HBS 38.5