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Who Is the Most Important Person in Your Life?The Watchtower—2011 | May 15
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7, 8. What trials did Job have to deal with, and what did he show by his faithful endurance?
7 Jehovah allowed Satan to bring a series of disasters upon Job, one after the other. (Job 1:12-19) How did Job react to this reversal of circumstances? We are told that he “did not sin or ascribe anything improper to God.” (Job 1:22) But Satan was still not silenced. He further complained: “Skin in behalf of skin, and everything that a man has he will give in behalf of his soul.”a (Job 2:4) Satan alleged that if Job personally suffered, he would decide that Jehovah was not the most important Person in his life.
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Who Is the Most Important Person in Your Life?The Watchtower—2011 | May 15
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a Some Bible scholars feel that the expression “skin in behalf of skin” may imply that Job would selfishly be willing to allow his children and animals to lose their skins, or lives, as long as he could keep his own skin, or life. Others feel that the expression emphasizes that a person would be willing to lose some skin if it meant saving his life. For example, a person may hold up his arm to avert a blow to his head, thus losing some skin to save his skin. Whatever the idiom meant, it obviously implied that Job would gladly give up everything as long as he could keep his life.
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