Thoughts on Job

I finished reading Job again a few days ago and I have decided to jot down a few thoughts that I have on the book.
1. God Himself describes Job as a man of “perfect integrity”. (Job 1:8)
2. With perfect integrity comes maxim testing.
3. Job’s testing provided opportunity testing for his wife and friends.
a. Job’s wife became overwhelmed with the details and circumstances of life.
b. Job’s wife failed to function as his helper.
c. Job’s only recorded response to his wife’s inability to orient to God was a rebuke.
d. Job’s friends intended comfort.
e. They became a source of greater testing.
4. Job’s wife and three of his four friends failed their test.
5. In seeking to justify himself to his friends Job lost perspective on his relationship to God.
6. Job’s loss of perspective led to an attitude of “I am righteous, who are You, God, to treat me this way?”
7. God, through the use of Job’s fourth friend and by direct questioning, reoriented Job to a correct creature/Creator perspective.
8. Job was humble enough to repent and confess his sin (Job 42:1-6).
9. Job’s humility was further tested by having to pray for his three friends (Job 42:7-8).
10. Job reaped temporal blessings for passing spiritual testing (Job 42:10-17).
11. Job’s demand for an explanation was never answered.
12. Job’s life was on display before man and angels.
13. Satan’s desire was to destroy Job.
14. Job was under God’s protection and Satan needed permission to approach him.
15. God set limits on what Satan could do.
16. Job’s testing lasted only as long as necessary to accomplish God’s design.
17. Job did not have any written bible or the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
18. Job was a gentile.