I

Job’s fear and submission toward God is an example to mankind,

and his perfection and uprightness

were the peak of the humanity that ought to be possessed by man.

Though he did not see God, he realized that God truly existed,

and because of this realization he feared God,

and due to his fear of God, he was able to submit to God.

He gave God free rein to take whatever he had, yet he was without complaint,

and fell down before God and told Him

that, at this very moment, even if God took his flesh,

he would gladly allow Him to do so, without any complaint.

His entire conduct was due to his perfect and upright humanity.

II

As a result of Job’s innocence, honesty, and kindness,

he was unwavering in his realization and experience of God’s existence.

Upon this foundation and in accordance with God’s guidance of him

and the deeds of God that he had seen among all things,

he made demands of himself and standardized his thinking,

standardized his behavior, conduct and principles of actions before God.

Over time, his experiences caused in him a real and actual fear of God

and at the same time made him shun evil, made him shun evil.

This was the source of the integrity to which Job held firm.

III

Job was possessed of an honest, innocent, and kind humanity,

was possessed of an honest, innocent, and kind humanity,

and he had actual experience of fearing God,

submitting to God, and shunning evil,

as well as the knowledge that “Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away.”

Thus, he was able to stand firm in his testimony

amid such vicious attacks by Satan,

and when God’s trials came upon him, he was able to not disappoint God

and to provide a satisfactory answer to God,

provide a satisfactory answer to God.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself II