Mrs. Job Series

The literary sound bite in this text, I believe, miss communicates the essence of Mrs. Job.

The text portrays a dialogue between Job and Mrs. Job where she says to her husband, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die?

Job replies, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble? Consequently the literary sound bite that he has for Mrs. Job is her being described as “talking like a foolish woman.”

I use to make the mistake in reading this text to mean that Job called his wife a foolish woman. NO he didn’t. He says that at this moment you are speaking foolishly. There is a different. Simply because you may say something foolish on an occasion, doesn’t not mean that you are foolish on every occasion.

Do I have a witness to that? Foolish statements seem to come from not thinking through your statements and they just slip out. Excuse me, just because I misspoke doesn’t mean that I’m totally foolish.

Mrs. Job was by no means foolish; she was a gift from God.

If you look closely Mrs. Job, you will learn these four things:

1) She was forceful. Beside every successful man there is a woman. Job’s success in life can be attributed to Mrs. Job’s forceful commitment to be true to him. Job didn’t have to worry about Mrs. Job. She was forceful in her commit and maintained the household. Just like Job had a reputation in the community, Mrs. Job was known throughout the land. Why did I say she was forceful, because Job had the resources to have had many wives and even concubines; but he obviously dared not entertain that thought around Mrs. Job. She was forceful in the management of visitation. She didn’t allow his friends to charge in a see him. Many times I’ve gone on hospital visits and the sign outside would say two visitors only. But, when I enter into the room with my pass, I discover that the room is filled to capacity with visitors exceeding the limits set by the hospital.

Not so, with Mrs. Job, she was forceful. So Job’s friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu have to wait in line and wait their turn to visit with Job.

2) She was faithful. She stuck by Job in good times and in bad. She felt that sting of lost just like Job. She lost houses, cattle, servants, and children; just like Job. But she was faithful to Job and to God. She stayed on point when it would seem that all was lost. She never gave up hope in her man or in God. Even when Job was searching himself for God; she stayed by his side. She was faithful. She was so faithful and understood God word so clearly; that even her remark to curse God and die was scripturally based. She knew the greatest sin was the sin of blasphemy. When one cursed God from that there was no appeal. The justice of God required the offending persons to receive a swift and cruel death. She had reached a point and her love was go great that she felt that the only remedy was a Dr. Kevorkian solution. It was not a statement of disrespect; her appeal was a statement of faith.