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Day 65

The Prayer of Job

Job 2:7–42:17

Satan made sores come onto Job’s body. This was very painful. But Job wouldn’t speak against God.

“You should curse God and die,” his wife said.

“Should we take the good from the Lord and not the bad?” he answered.

Job’s friends thought God had made the bad things happen. “Maybe Job has done evil,” they said, “and this is punishment.” Job didn’t believe this. He knew God’s goodness.

“You don’t speak the truth about me,” God told them. “But Job does.”

So Job prayed for his friends. God returned to Job twice as much as he’d lost.

Questions: Was God punishing Job? How did God repay Job for what he’d lost?