If you feel angry, jealous, hostile, quarrelsome, divisive, then don't talk, send emails, facebook posts, tweets, texts or other forms of communication until you feel love, joy, peace, kind, faithful, gentle and the Spirit is leading again.
God created us in His image. We fell and that image became distorted to us and the world. God wants to restore us into that God given image and then we can be used to restore our world. The Hebrew term is Tikkun Olam.
God had forbidden the enemy to destroy Job.
To get the clear meaning of a scripture, use your 20/20 vision. Read 20 verses before, 20 verse after and you will have 20/20 vision.
The book of Job has given hope and encouragement to countless billions of people over time. To lose all of that, so that Job could avoid his personal pain, would be selfish.
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