God’s Evaluation of Job

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In Ezekiel 14:13-14 (repeated in Ezekiel 14:20), to ram home a point, the Almighty Lord chose to name three people who, in all previous human history, epitomized those who had the greatest ever influence with God – the most righteous and spiritual powerful people ever to live up to and including Ezekiel’s time. In whittling down the list, the Lord bypassed such spiritual giants as Abel, Enoch, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, all the judges, Samuel, David, Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and so many more, in order to place Job in what The Message Bible calls the Big Three.

Dare any of us suggest God got it wrong in so highly esteeming Job?

    Ezekiel 14:13-14  . . . when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal; though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord God.

    Ezekiel 14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

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