Why Does Job Change In His Attitude Toward Women

Khesli Johnson English 121/Dr. Wilcox
“Why does Job change in his attitude toward women?” In this essay I will make an effort to explain why Job changed his attitude toward women. In the beginning of Job, we learn that Job is preferential to his 7 sons over his 3 daughters. Job 1:4 says that the sons had feasts in their houses, “everyone his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.” After this, Job even sanctified his sons and offered them burnt sacrifices. The daughters didn’t get this same treatment; all they got were invitations to the feasts. Later on in Job, we learn that Job gets a new family and only the daughters, surprisingly, are given names. More surprisingly, they are given the same

“His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east”, says Job 1:3. Losing all of this is enough to make anyone go mad and curse everyone. Going from “the greatest of all the men of the east” to having literally nothing must have been the loneliest thing in the world for Job. After this he “tore his robe in grief and shaved his head”, says Job 1:20. This whole test happened because Satan thought it would make Job curse God, he said in Job 1:11, “But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.” Job proves him wrong when he says, “Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” (Job 1:21) In all of this, Job did not curse God, thus, Satan’s first test was an absolute failure. Job went from the top of the world to practically the bottom. He once had everything and in an instant everything was taken away from him. All Job had left was his wife, who wasn’t very supportive of Job’s relationship with God. In fact, she even told him to curse God & die. I am quite positive that Job was lonely with no children, no

Once Satan realized that his first test failed he went back to God for another chance to prove himself correct. In Job 2:4-5 Satan says, “Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.” As the second test, Job was given boils from head to toe. As a Lupus patient I can say that the first thing I did when I was diagnosed was question God profusely. Sickness is enough to make you want to curse everyone, especially if there is no cure known to man. Even though Job’s wife told him to curse God he refused saying, “Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips” (Job 2:10). Even through his sickness, Job did not curse God; he just went outside and dealt with the boils. This must have made Job feel like the scum of the earth, he had done no wrong, yet he was given this sickness. Perhaps Job’s daughters felt like this when they were not given feasts, as their brothers were. They had done no wrong, yet all they received were invitations to attend the