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Job 1-3: The Devastation of Job

Heather Rubio, Susan Merrill, In Job, Job. Then Satan

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26 min·March 9, 2026

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Why does God allow suffering to get worse even when you're already doing everything right?

In Job chapters 1–3, the loss piles up fast for Job. Then Satan unleashes physical suffering so severe that Job's own friends don't recognize him when they arrive, and they sit in stunned silence for seven days. Job's wife, broken by her own grief, urges him to curse God and die. And in chapter 3, the man who worshipped through catastrophe opens his mouth and wishes he had never been born.

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