The wife of Job....comments

From my friend Kathy in California...guess we need to study the wife of Job......

"She's so renouned for her suggesting Job curse God and die. Nobody ever seems to remember that she, too!!!!!, lost 10 children, friends, servants, and her entire life/lifestyle! Why is that? Granted, she's not the focus of the life of Job but to relegate her to in passing comments and some mean-spirited character isn't exactly an honest portrayal...in my thinking.

She must have been reeling...devastated...wounded to her very spirit. Her children! Gone! She carried them in her body, she raised them, she loved them and they were her blessing. Back in those times many children were considered a blessing. She certainly did her part. (Not once, but then again a whole new family. She was no longer young then, either!) She too, had faithful servants and friends and she enjoyed the wealth her husband brought to the family. Suddenly, that's all gone and now even her husband is decaying before her very eyes. Gosh! Perhaps she had "An Elijah Moment".... utter dispair and depression. Maybe she'd had a total over-flow of 'enough'.

I have a thought about her. If she was such a mean, doubting woman, surely God would not have blessed her with many more children. If she had disrespected Job in the literal sense, she would not have been blessed by God. She must have had some guts, is all I can say.

I know that as Christians we don't tend to tell our slowly dying loved ones to 'curse God and die'.
It would be the exact wrong thing to say. The comment seems so out of place, so far away from who Job was. God obviously didn't strike her dead where she stood. Since He knows our very hearts He must have understood her immeasurable grief and He also mightily blessed her once again. I cannot imagine what they went through. I have two deceased brothers....other family members. Just the loss of two brothers is a crushing weight. I cannot imagine having 10 children and all of them being dead long before they reached old age.

I'm hard-pressed to think poorly of Job's wife or relegate her to some 'bitchy wife' category.
We simply do not know enough about her to describe her character. I'd prefer to give her the benefit of the doubt.

But then....that's just me!

SO....what are your thoughts?"


Kathie...my thoughts are that we do need to study her more!!
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