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God would have wanted Job to allow the ruining of his life for no comprehensible reason without any complaint. This is because Job for all his life had been faithful to God, feared God that he would not do anything transgressing before God. That is why God bragged on him telling Satan that there is no body on earth like Job because he was blameless, upright, God fearing and shunned evil (Job 1:8). Unfortunately, Job did not know that it was a test and when his friends started accusing him, he tried justifying himself which turned out to be self righteousness before God.
Job did not curse God even though he was found out to be self righteous in his accusations of the friends. But this does not mean that Job failed the test and lacked faith. In the first test, when Job lost everything including his children, he responded by tearing his robe and fell down to worship God (Job 1:20-22). He said it was God who gave and now he had taken away. However, in the second test, Job proved to be self righteous because of the accusations his friends put on him and he went on to question God of being unjust unto him. Regardless, of all those accusations, Job did not curse God. Though not perfectly, as there is no perfect man in this world, Job passed the test by not cursing God. Generally, the book teaches us that there is no one who is completely perfect apart from God himself. That is why we see Job regardless of being an upright man, through the accusations of his friends; he starts to question God inappropriately but finally realizes his mistake and admits it.
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