Was the suffering of Job in the Bible justified?

Answer 1

No, the parable of Job is an attempt to answer the question: why do bad things happen to good people. Job did not deserve to suffer, but life is not fair. Few people deserve the suffering they endure in this life, and many deserve to suffer a good deal more than they do.

At the end of the parable, God speaks to Job, and He tells Job that men are not meant to know why they suffer.

Answer 2

A:In the Book of Job, Satan is the loyal assistant of God, tasked with testing the righteousness of the faithful - not at all the adversary of God in later Christian tradition. The story begins when the sons of God come to present themselves before the Lord, with Satan one among them. God asks Satan where he has been and then asks whether Satan has tried to tempt Job, the most upright man on earth.

Satan says no man is beyond temptation, so God challenges him to do so, allowing him to harm Satan's property, family and servants but leave Job unharmed. The story tells of all Job's losses but his continued refusal to blame God, who had actually brought about his calamities. When Satan returns unsuccessful, God gives him another dare, allowing him to harm Job, as long as he does not kill him. Still Job refuses to blame God.

Finally, God in anger that Job dare be so righteous, demands whether Job thinks he is as great as God himself. He asks where Job was when God created the world and killed the chaos monsters. Job shows himself to be modest and obedient, so God relents and grants providence that Job have a new wife for the one he lost, seven new sons and three daughters, and greater wealth than before, living to a hundred and forty years.