I guess I was thinking that it was Job’s family who were the victims.
But I do like how God makes everything right in the end, by giving Job a new family. “Sorry about all that murdering your family and everything, Job. But here - have a new wife! She’s younger and prettier!”
It’s as if someone intentionally totals your old junker car and makes up for it by giving you a new one. It’s all OK because wives and children are just property.
I don’t think he got a new wife, I think he got replacement children. In fact, there are passages in the book where he’s sitting in a pile of filth and his wife is cursing him out.
Which again, in the context of that time period where they had a 70% infant mortality rate, people probably didn’t get that attached to children to start with.
Thanks for the correction. I was thinking he had his whole family wiped out.
He should be so lucky.
Did pkbites ever get a sufficient answer to this? I got lost in the XXX19 derailing.
The question was, “If one believes that the devil of the bible exists, isn’t this an admission that the god of that bible also exists? Therefore, wouldn’t worshiping said devil be the most dangerous risk in the universe?” That might not be an answerable question in any scientific sense, but I daresay it has by now been addressed from every angle conceivable.