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** Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[KarmicJackpot It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the sole exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
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** Job in the Book of Job. Literature/BookOfJob. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[KarmicJackpot It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the sole exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
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** The patriarch Isaac is depicted exactly twice: getting led into the wilderness, tied up, and nearly sacrificed by his father Abraham; and getting duped into giving away his birthright by his wife and younger son Jacob. That's it. That's how posterity knows you.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[KarmicJackpot It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the sole exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
** Another Biblical example: While he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Potiphar's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at interpreting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
** Another Biblical example: While he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Potiphar's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at interpreting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[KarmicJackpot It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the sole exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
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**Another Biblical example: While he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Potiphar's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at interpreting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
** Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[KarmicJackpot It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the sole exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
** Jesus. He was born in a stable, after all. Then he was betrayed by his close friend, and abandoned by his other friends. And then he endured beatings, spitting, scourging, a crown of thorns, and being nailed to a cross to be executed as a criminal. And he was [[IncorruptiblePurePureness completely innocent.]]
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** Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[KarmicJackpot It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the sole exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
** Jesus. He was born in a stable, after all. Then he was betrayed by his close friend, and abandoned by his other friends. And then he endured beatings, spitting, scourging, a crown of thorns, and being nailed to a cross to be executed as a criminal. And he was [[IncorruptiblePurePureness completely innocent.]]
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the odd exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[SubvertedTrope [[KarmicJackpot It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (with the odd sole exception of offspring; his original children remained dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back, though his original wife and children remained dead.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back, though back (with the odd exception of offspring; his original wife and children remained dead.dead, and he fathered only the ''same'' number of children afterwards).
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* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at interpreting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (although his original wife and children remained dead).
* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (although his original wife and children remained dead).
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate PlayedForDrama ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back, though his original wife and children remained dead.
** Another Biblical example:while While he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's Potiphar's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at interpreting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (although his original wife and children remained dead).]]
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (although his original wife and children remained dead).
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* Humanity itself Job in Greek traditions. Almost every god or goddess had at least one story in which they got bored and wanted to randomly screw the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with a mortal or groups of mortals. And then there's that hideous mess with Pandora not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the plagues ruining all our lives collectively.end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back (although his original wife and children remained dead).
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back.
* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at interpretting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at interpretting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith, he got twice of everything back.back (although his original wife and children remained dead).
* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good atinterpretting interpreting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he was played by an Osmond in the musical.]]
* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good at
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}.
** Not really, because for his faith he got twice of everything back.
** Not really, because for his faith he got twice of everything back.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and {{Cosmic Plaything}}.
** Not really, becausePlaything}}. [[SubvertedTrope It all worked out in the end]], though -- for his faith faith, he got twice of everything back.
** Not really, because
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for {{DramaButtMonkey}} Drama Butt Monkey and {{CosmicPlaything}}.{{Cosmic Plaything}}.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and Cosmic Plaything.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey {{DramaButtMonkey}} and Cosmic Plaything.{{CosmicPlaything}}.
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* Humanity itself in Greek traditions. Almost every god or goddess had at least one story in which they got bored and wanted to randomly screw with a mortal or groups of mortals.
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* Humanity itself in Greek traditions. Almost every god or goddess had at least one story in which they got bored and wanted to randomly screw with a mortal or groups of mortals. And then there's that hideous mess with Pandora and the plagues ruining all our lives collectively.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and Cosmic Plaything.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with not only God's consent but God's encouragement -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and Cosmic Plaything.
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* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good with dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's been played by an Osmond in a musical.]]
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* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good with at interpretting dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's been he was played by an Osmond in a the musical.]]
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* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good with dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's been played by an Osmond in a musical.]]
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* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good with dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's been played by an Osmond in a musical.]]]]
* Humanity itself in Greek traditions. Almost every god or goddess had at least one story in which they got bored and wanted to randomly screw with a mortal or groups of mortals.
* Humanity itself in Greek traditions. Almost every god or goddess had at least one story in which they got bored and wanted to randomly screw with a mortal or groups of mortals.
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey and Cosmic Plaything.Plaything.
* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good with dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's been played by an Osmond in a musical.]]
* Another Biblical example: while he made good in the end, Jacob's son Joseph waded through a ''lot'' of crap to get there. His older brothers planned to kill him for mouthing off so they tossed him in a pit, then changed their minds and sold him into slavery in Egypt. Things were okay for a while after that until Joseph's master's wife started hitting on him. When he refused to sleep with her, she accused him of attempted rape and off he went to prison. He was stuck there for years until one of Pharaoh's staff remembered he was good with dreams. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's been played by an Osmond in a musical.]]
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent no less -- made him the ultimate Butt Monkey used by both Satan and God in attempt to prove their point to each other. The fact that eventually Job regained his status and property because God happened to win the argument (or rather Job won the argument for him by being the ExtremeDoormat) does not diminish his status as a Butt Monkey, because God, rather than bringing his family back from the dead in all his wisdom, decided to just give him a new one (probably because women and children were considered much like cattle and other property in other regards as well).
** Just a thought here: first wife and children were already at peace. What would be proven by dragging them back to the mortal world?
*** Many people were restored to life in Scripture, and seemed to be okay with it.
*** That doesn't change the fact that all of Job's family were dead and gone. If Job's family truly could be completely replaced ''without him missing the old one'', then Job wasn't as great as the tale makes out.
*** When the Book of Job was written, the concepts of an omnipotent and all-benevolent God hadn't even surfaced yet, and his wife and children were sent to Sheol, a non-punitive, non-rewarding Land of the Dead. Job's friends, who speak to him about God's infinite justice, are the ones God punishes in the end. Job rails against God's injustice and gets rewarded for it. Satan, Hebrew for "adversary", is more like a prosecuting attorney than a Big Bad, and takes a place among "the sons of God", which is an entomylogical and spiritual adventure in and of itself.
** In the Old Testament there is no direct indication of existence of an afterlife; that line of thought only became popular later on. The worst God ever does to anybody is to kill them horribly -- no mention of post mortem punishments.
*** There is implication, and at least one direct reference: Daniel 12:1,2. Granted, this is still pretty vague.
** No one's going to mention poor, poor Joseph? To be fair, his life did get better once his knack for interpreting dreams was found out by the Pharaoh...
** Just a thought here: first wife and children were already at peace. What would be proven by dragging them back to the mortal world?
*** Many people were restored to life in Scripture, and seemed to be okay with it.
*** That doesn't change the fact that all of Job's family were dead and gone. If Job's family truly could be completely replaced ''without him missing the old one'', then Job wasn't as great as the tale makes out.
*** When the Book of Job was written, the concepts of an omnipotent and all-benevolent God hadn't even surfaced yet, and his wife and children were sent to Sheol, a non-punitive, non-rewarding Land of the Dead. Job's friends, who speak to him about God's infinite justice, are the ones God punishes in the end. Job rails against God's injustice and gets rewarded for it. Satan, Hebrew for "adversary", is more like a prosecuting attorney than a Big Bad, and takes a place among "the sons of God", which is an entomylogical and spiritual adventure in and of itself.
** In the Old Testament there is no direct indication of existence of an afterlife; that line of thought only became popular later on. The worst God ever does to anybody is to kill them horribly -- no mention of post mortem punishments.
*** There is implication, and at least one direct reference: Daniel 12:1,2. Granted, this is still pretty vague.
** No one's going to mention poor, poor Joseph? To be fair, his life did get better once his knack for interpreting dreams was found out by the Pharaoh...
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* Job in the Book of Job. Getting literally everything taken from him by Satan -- with God's consent no less -- made him the ultimate Played for Drama Butt Monkey used by both Satan and God in attempt to prove their point to each other. The fact that eventually Job regained his status and property because God happened to win the argument (or rather Job won the argument for him by being the ExtremeDoormat) does not diminish his status as a Butt Monkey, because God, rather than bringing his family back from the dead in all his wisdom, decided to just give him a new one (probably because women and children were considered much like cattle and other property in other regards as well).
** Just a thought here: first wife and children were already at peace. What would be proven by dragging them back to the mortal world?
*** Many people were restored to life in Scripture, and seemed to be okay with it.
*** That doesn't change the fact that all of Job's family were dead and gone. If Job's family truly could be completely replaced ''without him missing the old one'', then Job wasn't as great as the tale makes out.
*** When the Book of Job was written, the concepts of an omnipotent and all-benevolent God hadn't even surfaced yet, and his wife and children were sent to Sheol, a non-punitive, non-rewarding Land of the Dead. Job's friends, who speak to him about God's infinite justice, are the ones God punishes in the end. Job rails against God's injustice and gets rewarded for it. Satan, Hebrew for "adversary", is more like a prosecuting attorney than a Big Bad, and takes a place among "the sons of God", which is an entomylogical and spiritual adventure in and of itself.
** In the Old Testament there is no direct indication of existence of an afterlife; that line of thought only became popular later on. The worst God ever does to anybody is to kill them horribly -- no mention of post mortem punishments.
*** There is implication, and at least one direct reference: Daniel 12:1,2. Granted, this is still pretty vague.
** No one's going to mention poor, poor Joseph? To be fair, his life did get better once his knack for interpreting dreams was found out by the Pharaoh...Cosmic Plaything.
** Just a thought here: first wife and children were already at peace. What would be proven by dragging them back to the mortal world?
*** Many people were restored to life in Scripture, and seemed to be okay with it.
*** That doesn't change the fact that all of Job's family were dead and gone. If Job's family truly could be completely replaced ''without him missing the old one'', then Job wasn't as great as the tale makes out.
*** When the Book of Job was written, the concepts of an omnipotent and all-benevolent God hadn't even surfaced yet, and his wife and children were sent to Sheol, a non-punitive, non-rewarding Land of the Dead. Job's friends, who speak to him about God's infinite justice, are the ones God punishes in the end. Job rails against God's injustice and gets rewarded for it. Satan, Hebrew for "adversary", is more like a prosecuting attorney than a Big Bad, and takes a place among "the sons of God", which is an entomylogical and spiritual adventure in and of itself.
** In the Old Testament there is no direct indication of existence of an afterlife; that line of thought only became popular later on. The worst God ever does to anybody is to kill them horribly -- no mention of post mortem punishments.
*** There is implication, and at least one direct reference: Daniel 12:1,2. Granted, this is still pretty vague.
** No one's going to mention poor, poor Joseph? To be fair, his life did get better once his knack for interpreting dreams was found out by the Pharaoh...
