In the book of Job, Job is a wealthy and powerful man from a city named Uz. He has an extended family and livestock. He is “blameless and upright” carefully avoiding wrong doing so that he will not upset God (A 126). One day the “sons of God “, were having a meeting and Satan is also present. God tells Satan about Job’s personality, but Satan says to God that Job is a good person because God gives him a lot. God tells Satan to torment Job to show that Job will always be loyal to God.
The book of Job is about loyalty and friendship. After the news that Job receives about his livestock, servants and children, Job reacts only by tearing his clothes and shaving his head, but he blesses God in his prayers. Any human being would blame God for this kind of losses but Job did not, instead he maintains his loyalty to God. However, his friends are not showing any kind of pain for his losses even his wife tells him to “Curse God, and die”, (A 126) but he never wants to turn against God. Now his friends after learning what has happened to Job “, they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and comfort him” (A 126). They stay with him for seven days and seven nights and nobody said a word because they saw Job was suffering from his loss. However, as the days went by one of his friends Eliphaz believes that Job’s suffering must be the result of some sin Job committed, and then Bildad and Zophar agree with Eliphaz. To make things worse Zophar states that for whatever sins Job has done he deserves the punishments he has received.
A New York Times article on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 states, “Obama’s Chief for Economics Is Set to Leave” (Stoldber A1).This will be in addition to the many top level advisers that already left. This should not be happening at this time when the president’s popularity is decreasing. As Job’s friends turned against him, these executives are turning their backs on President Obama. These executives, by leaving their positions, are in a sense punishing President Obama. Similarly to Job, what has President Obama done to deserve such actions?
