... (Job 2:4-5) as Job's physical well-being gets tested. Yet he still maintains his faith. The Book of Job reveals that while God usually blesses the godly and punishes the ungodly, He does not always do so as we see in the example of Job. He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" (Job 2:11) Job's wife and his friends believed that those who trust and obey Him He would bless, and those who do not He will curse. From this it may be safe to conclude that if we trust and obey God, He owes us blessing. This then assumes that the basis of God's relationship with people is retribution. Job concluded that God was unjust since he had been good but God was allowing him to suffer. Job's wife agreed with him. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zopher believed that Job ...

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