A Small Mistake

Reading this part of the book of Job was reading a completely different story from Exodus and Genesis. For the first time, a human preferred by God had to go through a terrible ordeal. Never had God hurt anyone of his favorite men. Abraham was given a huge amount of wealth, good children and a whole land for himself. The only time he had to sacrifice something was when God asked him to give his son as a sacrifice, but that was only a test, and he never killed Isaac. Jacob became rich, had four wives and twelve kids (what more can a man ask?), and became the founder of the Israelites. Moses never got as much as a scratch. All he had to do was go to the Pharaoh, as for the Israelites' freedom and wait aside as God destroyed Egypt with all kinds of plagues. He didn't even have to hunt for food or water, because God threw it from the sky. Basically, if you are a VIP for God, your life is made. This is why I'm so confused with Job's fate. He apparently was a better person than any of his ancestors, because as the Bible said:


"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil." (Job 1:1).

He was practically perfect, and never had he sinned or in the very least displeased God. Hadn't God wanted this from every single human he had created since Adam and Eve's time?

It all happened when God started bragging about him to Satan, and he took advantage of the situation to test how far could that perfection go. When he found that taking all his wealth and all his offspring wasn't enough to make Job curse God, he continued to physical sacrifice. The pain was so great he wanted to die, and he was even wishing he had never been born. I wonder how God had agreed to all of this unnecessary torture. Wasn't he happy enough to have at least one human in the whole world that hadn't turned up a total disaster as almost all of his past creations were? What is wrong with God during this book? The punishment he was receiving has no reason or justification, because Job was a perfect son of God. Even his friends were impressed, and kept saying he must have angered God in some way, in order to be experiencing so much sorrow and pain. And yet it was almost like a bet between God and Satan to see if he was as perfect as he appeared. I wonder if Job will keep loving God after all he’s done to him. Be very annoyed if I found the God I've been honoring all my life suddenly started punishing me with no reason, just to show Satan how perfect I am.