Many of the figures in the Old Testament are commemorated by Holy Church as saints.
Here is the entry in the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum:
1. Commemoratio sancti Iob, admirandae patientiae viri in terra Hus.
We could talk about Job all day and into next week or next year.
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I read the book of Job was I was a young man. I thank God for leading me to it.
It taught me not to complain. Bad things happen to us all, as well as good. God is in charge. As with Job, even when the devil is attacking, God is with us.
One of my grandsons recently read it and discussed it with me. It has had a positive effect in his life.
“We could talk about Job all day and into next week or next year.”
Very Gregorian of you, Father.
The thing is, as I read Job, one of the things it teaches is specifically: “Do complain. Don’t despair; but do complain.”
God answers Jobs complaints with the highly beautiful First Speech. “Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.” And then all the details about the ostrich hen who (unsaid: other than Man) does not have reason and all. “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (implying that there was something to shout about, says Chesterton). Job: “Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.”
A natural enough conclusion, but it seems not quite the appropriate one. The tone of God’s Second speech is markedly different; one has the impression that He was rather amused about Job in the First Speech but really is a bit angry at him in the Second, and the reason seems to be not so much the complaints as precisely the hand-on-the-mouth. “Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.?Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?” And then not so much the ostrich hen as leviathan and behemoth and all.
What does Job now say? “Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare Thou unto me.”
And that is the answer God is contented with.