Job 1-4

1:1 - Job "blameless and upright" feared God and shunned evil

1:3 "greatest of all the people of the East."

1:12 Satan's ability to harm Job required permission from God

1:21 following loss of everything, Job said, "Naked I came from my mothers womb and naked shall I return there.  The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord."

2:1 sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, satan among them

2:6 Next level of persecution also required God's permission

2:10 after wife told him to curse God and die, he asked, "Shall we indeed accept good from God and shall we not accept adversity?"

2:12 -13 initial response of Job's friends = mourning with him in silence

3:19 describing the place where stillborn babes are, "the servant is free from his master."

4:17-21 - foolishnesh of trust in men from Eliphaz Job's friend