3. Even after the losses brought upon Job by Satan, and very many sad and tragic bereavements, what could God say further to Satan in full confidence concerning Job? Job 2:2-3.
NOTE: ‘Here was a demonstration, not simply to the few that might know of Job’s case, nor to all those merely that should read of his experience, but before the whole universe, that God’s power of love was sufficient to hold a man in his integrity. Though his possessions, his children, his all was gone, yet the love that God had to him, and the love that had sprung up in his heart to God, were sufficient to hold him, so that he said, “I will not give up my loyalty though I die.” Job was working out before the universe how much power there was in the love of God. Many times we have experiences that we do not and cannot understand. Why this affliction? Why this loss? Why this trouble? Do you not see that Job was before the Universe as a man that could be trusted to reveal the power of God’s love to hold him firm in his confidence, demonstrating that there is a power in God's love sufficient to stand against trial?’ W. W. Prescott: Bible Echo, February 24, 1896.
4. How did Job’s responses to his wife, concerning these events and then his own bodily ill health, show his integrity in his trust in God? Job 2:4-10.
NOTE: ‘There is a bright side for every Christian traveller. Whatever circumstances surround him, there is a bright side. We have examples of this all through the Bible. Job in affliction could say, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord!” Praise to God has ascended from the fiery furnace, the lions’ den, dungeons, and prison houses. The lives of good men in all ages attest this simple fact true; and can the Christian now feel that the clouds hang so fearfully around that they shut away the light of heaven? The question often comes to our heart, How may we find the bright side? But if holy men and women of old could find it, may not those to whom it has been said, “When ye see these things, then lift up your heads and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh?” Is not this the bright side to this world’s dark picture of sin and woe? Let cares and perplexities come till the spirit is well nigh overwhelmed, yet here is an anchor which will bide every stormy deluge of care.’ James White: Review & Herald, June 3, 1862.